Two weeks ago the Nets drafted the two youngest prospects in team history in the first round. But it was second-round pick Jalen Wilson who had the numbers — the higher-scoring average, more awards, the bigger wins in college.

Last year Wilson helped lead Kansas to the 2022 NCAA title. This year the consensus All-American unanimously won Big 12 Player of the Year and the Julius Erving award for the best small forward in all of college basketball.

And now he’ll try to make it in the NBA, after being drafted 51^st overall by Brooklyn.

Wilson was signed to a two-way contract on Wednesday, and opened Las Vegas Summer League play on Friday vs. Cleveland in his first chance to start showing Jacque Vaughn and the other Brooklyn coaches what he can do. With 17 points, five rebounds and two blocks, the early returns were promising.

“Another opportunity to be able to play the game that I love, and to be able to do it in a beautiful place like this,” Wilson said. “You know, not a lot of guys in the world get to hear their name get called; so like coach (Vaughn) said, it’s a great opportunity. I’m just looking forward to getting on the court.”

The last time Wilson was on the court — in games that count, not pre-draft workouts and such — he led the Jayhawks in scoring and rebounding, with 20.1 ppg and 8.2 rpg, while shooting 33.7 percent from 3-point range and adding leadership.

“He’s a champion,” Brooklyn general manager Sean Marks said of Wilson. “He’s won before, so he’s seen what it takes, being coached really hard, being coached well.”

First-round picks Noah Clowney of Alabama and Dariq Whitehead from Duke are both just 18 years old, the two youngest draftees in franchise history.

Wilson is nearly four years older at 22.

While the NBA is a development league — all the biggest stars have made quantum leaps from their first campaigns, even those who won Rookie of the Year — there is a perception that Wilson’s comparatively-advanced age limits his upside.

Predictably, he disagrees.

“I just think my time at school gave me a lot of different experiences, taught me a lot of different things,” Wilson said. “I was able to do a lot of different roles and I feel like I just use that to my advantage.

“Being able to come in and play a specific role — I was able to do that on championship team. I was able to do it last year as well with a different role, with being the older guy on the team. But I just look at this opportunity to come in and be able to do whatever I’m asked to do. Like, I’ve been asked to do a lot of different things in my career at Kansas, so I’ll be well prepared to do that.”

In his final season at Kansas, Wilson had shooting splits of .430/.337/.799. Combining that with a solidly-built 6-foot-6, 230-pound frame, he brings not just physicality, rebounding and the ability to slash to the hoop, but also experience in varied roles.

“Jalen is just physical,” Nets Summer League coach Trevor Hendry said. “His ability to guard different positions and make catch-and-shoot 3s is something that he’s done at a pretty high clip.”

Continuing to make strides in the latter area will be vital for Wilson’s NBA career.

At just 33.7 percent from 3-point range this past season at Kansas, and 31.6 percent for his career, Wilson’s efficiency in catch-and-shoot situations is going to have to improve. He’s not going to be the focal point in the NBA, so he’ll have to space the floor for those who are. Only then can he allow his other talents come to the fore, and stick around in the NBA.

Wilson developed a reputation in college of being at his best against the best competition, pouring in 25 points, 11 rebounds and five assists to lead his Jayhawks to a 69-64 neutral site win over Whitehead and Duke in November.

“That was my first time, like actually, you know, seeing him play in person,” Whitehead said of Wilson. “And after that night, we all pretty much left the building pretty much knowing what he was capable of.

“We talked about it after the game. We knew the reason that we lost that game, and it was big credit to him, with him doing what he had to do that night. So we all pretty much left that game knowing who he was and what he was capable of.”

But Wilson still had to prove it to scouts.

Not a plus athlete, Wilson is strong enough and had been expected to go at the top of the second round, but fell following a poor shooting effort in May’s NBA Combine. His agility and measurables (6-8 wingspan, 230 lbs.) were fine, but he shot just 2-for-12 overall and .200 from deep through two scrimmages.

“He didn’t have a great combine from a statistic standpoint, but anybody that has seen him play knows he knows how to play,” Kansas coach Bill Self told 247 Sports. “He’s ultra-competitive, people know that. People have seen him play a lot.”

Despite his shooting struggles at the Combine, Wilson had a busy pre-draft schedule, working out for Brooklyn, Golden State, Indiana, the Lakers, Portland Trailblazers and others.

What the Nets had seen scouting him at Kansas and working him out late in the pre-draft process convinced them to snap him up and hand him one of their three two-way spots.

Now comes his toughest test.

“I think the biggest part is to dive into your career now,” said Vaughn, a fellow former Jayhawk. “You’re a professional. This is what you do for a living, and so being able to tailor what you do on and off the floor to impact your ability to get on the floor for us and play is decision-making. So they’re going to be different.

“Noah and Jalen can both play multiple positions, and so I think [it’s not about] not honing in on one thing as a basketball player to work on, but I think the holistic approach of how am I going to stay in this league? So they’ll learn how to be better decision-makers, how to be professional, and that’s where we can help guide. So I think the biggest thing is that they’re going to fill taxes out now … they have to act like professional athletes.”