Welcome to Salt Lake City, Darryn Peterson.

The Utah Jazz selected the 6-foot-6 Kansas guard with the second pick in the NBA draft on Tuesday night, adding one of college basketball’s best scorers to a team ready to compete for the playoffs once again.

“We’re so excited to add Darren,” Jazz President of Basketball Operations Austin Ainge said shortly after making the pick. “He’s a really talented player. He is a really hard worker. He’s got culture fit, talent fit, game fit with our organization, and we think he’ll be a huge part of us in the short term and the long term. ... Had a chance to talk to him a minute ago, and he’s super pumped.”

Peterson played in 24 games with the Jayhawks, including two contests in the NCAA Tournament, averaging 20.2 points, 4.2 rebounds and 1.6 assists per game.

His lone collegiate season was marred by question marks, as he dealt with multiple cramping episodes and a lingering hamstring injury.

But at full strength — which Peterson says he’s at once again — he is one of the most dynamic players in the draft.

“I’m back. Period,” he said this week. “I’m myself again. I’m feeling great. Never felt better actually.”

Peterson didn’t work out for Utah and there was some early speculation that he preferred Memphis or Washington as landing spots.

But Peterson put those rumors to rest this week.

Asked this week about his choice to only work out for the Washington Wizards, who ultimately took BYU’s AJ Dybantsa with the No. 1 pick, Peterson said: “(It was) just a decision that was made, but I’m definitely not dodging any team. Whoever takes me, I’m going to come in and be delighted to be there. And wherever that happens to be, they’ll get the best me. But I’m not dodging any team. I’m ready to play for whoever.”

Jazz officials met with Peterson the week before the draft at his home in Canton, Ohio, where they discussed his fit with the franchise.

The Jazz ultimately chose Peterson over the likes of Duke’s Cameron Boozer and North Carolina’s Caleb Wilson.

“I’ll just say that there’s a lot of good players in this draft, and it was a hard decision,” Ainge said.

Peterson will now join Keyonte George, Lauri Markkanen and Jaren Jackson Jr. on a team ready to compete for a Western Conference playoff spot.

Darryn Peterson’s fit in Utah

Two shooting guards started 41 games each for the Jazz last season: Svi Mykhailiuk and Cody Williams. Given that, you can see why Peterson figures to be a very strong fit for the Jazz’s needs.

But Peterson’s strong fit with Utah goes beyond his fortuitous position. His biggest strength as a player — his remarkably beautiful shooting form in all situations — would seem to be a great match for coach Will Hardy’s offense, which runs guards through a lot of off-ball motion up top around screening big men. Peterson wasn’t much of a playmaker at Kansas, but he’ll have relatively simple reads to make in year one in Utah.

“He’s just a really talented player,” Ainge said of Peterson. “And the thing that we like most about him is he feels, for a 19-year-old, he feels very complete. He can drive left, he can drive right, he can shoot off the catch, he can shoot off the dribble, he can guard, he can play pick-and-roll, he can play off the ball. It feels like he can help all of our other talented players in a lot of different ways.”

That’s the immediate future. But if Peterson becomes the player his advocates imagine (a perennial ball-in-hand All-Star along the lines of Devin Booker), the Jazz’s personnel layout should give him room to grow into a higher and higher usage role as he develops his game. Markkanen, Jackson Jr., George, Walker Kessler and Ace Bailey all can be off-ball finishers (either by nailing 3-pointers or dunking lobs) on plays Peterson and the Jazz set up.

Peterson’s defensive output is also best among the top three picks in this draft. He’s not a defensive high-energy hound, but rather a strong reader of the game who garnered plenty of steals and blocks with the Jayhawks, a skill the Jazz desperately need on the perimeter.

The questions with Peterson are about the extent to which he struggled with availability last season — he explained both his absences and his visually decayed burst as due to cramps, the result of taking too much creatine. Some around the NBA buy the reasoning, others don’t.

The NBA’s 82-game schedule will not be easier on his body, or his mind. But the Jazz have evaluated Peterson’s medicals, and found his talent is worth this risk — and it’s hard to disagree with that.