To many, it’s a foregone conclusion that the New York Giants can be deciding on a quarterback within the first spherical of the 2024 NFL draft.
That could be the case ought to they discover themselves within the top-5 come draft evening subsequent April. However latest occasions, and statements made by normal supervisor Joe Schoen this week, have some believing the Giants aren’t fairly prepared to maneuver on from Daniel Jones — but.
“He’s in there rehabbing proper now. He’s going to assault it,” Schoen stated of Jones, who underwent surgical procedure to restore a torn ACL final week. “You guys all know Daniel and his work ethic; in all probability a man we’re going to have to drag again. However the expectation is when Daniel’s wholesome that he can be our beginning quarterback.
“Once more, we don’t have a crystal ball by way of how the rehab’s going to go; completely different sufferers reply in a different way to those surgical procedures, after which whether or not there’s going to be swelling within the knee or any setbacks. No person has a crystal ball on this, however that’s the expectation transferring ahead.”
Not precisely what Large followers needed to listen to. Many have seen sufficient of Jones and imagine they’ve skilled the most effective of him. They need the Giants to go in a brand new course.
Don’t depend on that to occur this offseason. Schoen is aware of he has locked himself into Jones for all east one other season. However he additionally is aware of one thing must be achieved after the group was left with emergency choices at quarterback (rookie Tommy DeVito) after accidents to Jones and his backup, Tyrod Taylor.
“I believe we’re going to need to do one thing on the quarterback, whether or not it’s free company or the draft,” Schoen stated. “I imply, simply the place we’re, Tyrod’s contract is up, DeVito is clearly below contract, and Daniel, we don’t know when he’s going to be prepared. So, simply from an offseason program standpoint, I believe that’ll be a place that we’ll have to have a look at. There’re completely different avenues — free company or the draft — however we’ll have to handle it sooner or later.”
Schoen is being reasonable greater than the rest. The Giants are at present outdoors the highest 5 (they’re sixth) in subsequent 12 months’s draft order. They is probably not ready to take a prime quarterback akin to USC’s Caleb Williams or Drake Maye of North Carolina.
Darryl Slater of NJ Advance Media believes the Giants might wait till 2025 to seek out their quarterback of the long run.
Let’s say Schoen picks someplace outdoors the highest 5 — and each Williams and Maye are gone. Schoen would then want to find out what he thinks of the subsequent quarterback tier (Bo Nix, Jayden Daniels, Michael Penix). Would Schoen really feel OK drafting, say, Nix at No. 7?
It’s additionally potential Schoen may draft a quarterback in Spherical 2, the place he has an additional decide due to the Leonard Williams commerce with Seattle. Or perhaps Schoen makes use of that further second-rounder as ammo to commerce up into the underside of Spherical 1 for a quarterback.
Slater goes on to say that Schoen’s choices are restricted and can proceed to lower ought to they hold successful (the Giants have gained two straight to bump their report as much as 4-8).
It’s unlikely they are going to win many extra video games this season with their closing 5 video games all in opposition to playoff contenders, together with the Philadelphia Eagles twice.
The Giants will possible end proper within the thick of the order the place they’ll get a kind of three quarterbacks not named Williams or Maye. Schoen must contemplate toeing one in all them or run the danger of getting a repeat of 2023 on his palms.
On the very least, he can choose a quarterback in Spherical 1 and have him sit a 12 months (or much less) behind Jones. Ready till 2025 to safe your future at quarterback appears a bit dangerous.
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