If the New York Giants don’t commerce up into the highest three picks of the 2024 NFL draft, they’ll possible miss out on Caleb Williams, Drake Maye, and Jayden Daniels.
Within the minds of many, that’s completely high quality as a result of Michigan’s J.J. McCarthy will nonetheless be out there for the taking sooner or later from No. 4 via No. 6.
Nonetheless, former NFL offensive lineman and present analyst, Brian Baldinger, doesn’t subscribe to that principle. In actual fact, he warns, the Giants ought to keep away from McCarthy completely.
“I’d not go after J.J. McCarthy. He may turn into an important professional. He’s only a very troublesome man to guage due to the place he comes from,” Baldinger informed the New York Publish. “He’s the one quarterback I can bear in mind in current historical past the place no one says something unfavourable about him. They only say, ‘He’s 27-1, Jim Harbaugh says he’s the very best quarterback within the draft.’
“No one says something in regards to the offense he performed in, not throw the ball within the second half in opposition to Penn State, they don’t carry any of that up. They’re similar to, ‘Yep, he was a five-star recruit in highschool, he took Michigan to a nationwide championship, back-to-back playoff seasons.’ Like he’s the Golden Little one. No one ever says something unhealthy about him. And I can’t work out what there may be to guage with him. They requested little or no of him to go win a nationwide championship.”
If each McCarthy and huge receiver Rome Odunze can be found at six, Baldinger believes the Giants ought to go together with Odzune. They most definitely mustn’t commerce up for McCarthy, he provides.
“I like him, I don’t know that I really like him. I can’t see what number of off-platform throws he makes, or how inventive he’s when, I don’t know, Aidan Hutchinson’s able to swallow him up,” Baldinger stated. “You simply don’t see that many conditions that NFL quarterbacks need to react to in actual time, whether or not to make the throw as you get blasted, or to get out of hurt’s method like (Patrick) Mahomes does weekly a few instances each recreation. Or Josh Allen simply uncorks a bomb to go win a recreation.
“You simply don’t see these sort of throws from him. If I used to be Joe Schoen, I wouldn’t commerce up, lose property that they desperately want, which may turn into a franchise quarterback, however you’re very unsure if he’ll.”
Baldinger isn’t alone in his skepticism of McCarthy. Former Giants nice Tiki Barber expressed comparable considerations this week.
Tiki would not need the Giants to take J.J. McCarthy: pic.twitter.com/HYUGyxhdLd
— WFAN Sports activities Radio (@WFAN660) April 11, 2024
“Cease with the J.J. McCarthy factor,” Barber stated. “His movie doesn’t say he’s a first-round quarterback. His movie doesn’t say ‘I must do away with all my property and draft this man’ as a result of lots of what he does doesn’t translate.”
We’ll quickly discover out if common supervisor Joe Schoen shares comparable beliefs.
