EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — There isn’t any quarterback controversy for the New York Giants. When Daniel Jones returns from the neck harm that has sidelined him the previous two video games, he’ll stay the starter.
Veteran Tyrod Taylor will return to his position because the backup.
“He is our starter,” Giants coach Brian Daboll mentioned Wednesday of Jones, who signed a four-year, $160 million deal this offseason. “I’ve mentioned it, I do not know what number of occasions I have been requested, however I’ve mentioned it a bunch.”
Taylor has performed properly in his two begins, producing two of the Giants’ three finest offensive outputs this season and main them to a 14-7 win over the Washington Commanders on Sunday.
The chances are high that Taylor will get no less than a 3rd begin Sunday in opposition to the New York Jets as Jones stays the “identical as he was final week,” Daboll mentioned.
Jones will apply Wednesday however is not going to take any staff reps and has not been cleared for contact. That has been the case ever since he injured his neck when he was slammed to the bottom in an Oct. 8 loss to the Miami Dolphins.
This is not the primary neck harm for Jones, who missed the ultimate six video games of the 2021 season with a neck downside. However Jones and Daboll have been adamant that he’ll return this season.
“It is a completely different harm,” Jones mentioned. “I believe while you see different guys who’ve related conditions as mine and they’re able to progress and are available again, I am following an analogous timeline to that. That’s form of the optimism. And yeah, it is a completely different harm than final time.”
Jones insists he’s making progress. “I really feel loads higher. I really feel loads higher than I did after the harm,” he mentioned. “Proceed to enhance week by week, daily even. So I am feeling higher and targeted on persevering with to do this.”
However Jones admitted there are nonetheless some signs. It simply stays a matter of passing all of the medical checks with the intention to get clearance.
Whereas Taylor has outplayed Jones in his two begins and has a QBR this season of fifty.1 in contrast with Jones’ 39.0, that is extra about the way forward for the franchise.
Jones, 26, performed properly final season, ending sixth with a QBR of 62.9, in his first yr underneath Daboll and basic supervisor Joe Schoen. The Giants reached the playoffs and received a wild-card recreation. Jones was rewarded with a brand new contract that assured him $84 million within the first two years of his deal. The thought was that, with higher weapons, he would proceed to blossom.
However the Giants (2-5) struggled to start out the season. Jones was being sacked at an exorbitant fee — 28 in his 5 begins — and the offense stumbled. It did not assist that he was enjoying behind an injury-ravaged offensive line and with out star working again Saquon Barkley.
Taylor, 34, accomplished 18 of 29 passes for 279 yards with two touchdowns and no interceptions in Sunday’s win over Washington. He hasn’t dedicated a turnover in his two begins.
Taylor signed a two-year, $11 million through the 2022 offseason.
“I really feel snug in our offense. I really feel snug with the playmakers that we now have outdoors,” Taylor mentioned. “It is as much as me, clearly, to get the ball to these guys, so simply making an attempt to unfold it round as a lot as doable, and lots of these guys create performs.”
However the regular veteran understands his position.
“That is as much as Coach,” Taylor mentioned Sunday. “Clearly, if [Jones] is wholesome, he is a captain on our staff, captain of our staff, a frontrunner on the offense, and I’m right here to help in any method that I can.”
