The New York Giants received some terrible news last week about their newly paid signal caller Daniel Jones. After Jones left the game it was discovered that he tore his ACL, and thus would miss the rest of this season. Suddenly the GMen had some tough questions to answer, not only for 2023, but for the future of their franchise.
Usually when someone signs a four year, $160 million dollar deal to be your QB, you don't expect to have a conversation like this after one season, but here we are. Is Daniel Jones the future of the Giants?
New York presumably has their head coach and GM set for the long run, and even despite their blunders this season will move forward with the core of this team, a team that should have had Jones penciled in for the next four years, but now we have to really look into if that will be the case ... or if that should be the case. Jones's contract was first guessed by many fans and media members. He was a solid quarterback. That word solid can be taken either as a positive or negative. Jones has proven he can take a team to the playoffs, but what is his ceiling? He also has looked terribly bad at times, and a lot of those times came early this year. Normally, with his massive contract and one year to recover fans would just assume that Jones is their man and get ready for 2024, but this situation could be different.
The New York Giants are one of the worst teams in the NFL and should get a very high draft pick. This is a draft class that has been dubbed potentially one of the best ever for young QBs. So are the Giants in that mix? The Bears own two high picks, by way of the Panthers pick, and it's still undecided if they will draft a young arm or stick with Justin Fields. Arizona might stay with Murray, but they also will be in the mix for a signal caller. That leaves the Giants and Patriots as the only clear teams who should go QB hunting in April.
With names like Caleb Williams, Drake Maye, McCarthy, Bo Nix, Pennix out there the speculation is there could be 5 QBs taken in the first 10 picks. The Giants can move on from Jones if they decide they should. Williams is the obvious prize and it's likely if the Giants somehow landed the #1 overall pick they would be ok with eating Jones's contract for a "generational talent" like Williams. But, what about Drake Maye? There are respected draft analysts out there that prefer Maye to Williams, and it's likely the Giants would pull the trigger with Maye as well. That leaves the rest of the field or Daniel Jones.
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