For a chunk printed Wednesday, ESPN reporter Jordan Raanan appeared to pour chilly water over any concept that the New York Giants will maintain a authentic quarterback competitors between Daniel Jones and Drew Lock this summer time.
“It is nonetheless Daniel Jones’ present,” Raanan immediately stated in regards to the scenario. “The Giants have been adamant about Jones being the starter when he returns from a torn proper ACL. The 26-year-old quarterback advised ESPN final week that he was chopping on the leg and ‘doing every thing’ in the course of the staff’s offseason exercise program. All indicators level to Jones being cleared for the beginning of coaching camp.”
It is now hardly a secret that Giants normal supervisor Joe Schoen had no less than some curiosity in transferring up from total decide No. 6 to No. 3 within the 2024 draft order for the fitting to pick North Carolina Tar Heels star signal-caller Drake Maye. Schoen was unable and/or unwilling to get the New England Patriots to promote that draft asset and the Giants had no practical probability of moving into the highest two picks for both Caleb Williams of the USC Trojans or Jayden Daniels of the LSU Tigers.
The Giants in the end handed on quarterbacks Michael Penix Jr. and J.J. McCarthy to draft LSU huge receiver Malik Nabers through selection No. 6.
Some have suggested because the draft that Schoen and head coach Brian Daboll might begin Lock over Jones, partially as a result of $23M of Jones’ wage for 2025 is guaranteed in opposition to damage. Jones handled a pair of worrisome neck-related issues from the autumn of 2021 by means of this previous season till he went down with the torn proper ACL on Nov. 5, however Raanan indicated that Schoen is not but counting down the months and weeks till the membership can escape Jones’ contract subsequent offseason.
“So except newly signed Drew Lock or Tommy DeVito do one thing spectacular this spring, it is Jones’ job to lose,” Raanan continued in Wednesday’s piece. “Given his work ethic, it is onerous to examine Jones not beginning Week 1. Whether or not he performs properly sufficient to maintain the job for everything of this season and into the longer term is one other story.”
Again in 2019, a distinct teaching employees benched Giants legend Eli Manning in favor of Jones after New York opened Jones’ rookie season with back-to-back defeats. Jones could not get greater than a few video games to show himself this September, nevertheless it seems like he is nonetheless comfortably atop the Giants depth chart no matter what outsiders must say in regards to the matter this spring.