Brian Baldinger warns New York Giants in opposition to drafting J.J. McCarthy

If the New York Giants don’t commerce up into the highest three picks of the 2024 NFL draft, they’ll probably miss out on Caleb Williams, Drake Maye, and Jayden Daniels.

Within the minds of many, that’s completely wonderful as a result of Michigan’s J.J. McCarthy will nonetheless be obtainable for the taking in some unspecified time in the future from No. 4 by No. 6.

Nevertheless, former NFL offensive lineman and present analyst, Brian Baldinger, doesn’t subscribe to that principle. Actually, he warns, the Giants ought to steer clear of McCarthy totally.

“I might not go after J.J. McCarthy. He may develop into a terrific professional. He’s only a very troublesome man to guage due to the place he comes from,” Baldinger instructed the New York Submit. “He’s the one quarterback I can bear in mind in latest historical past the place no one says something adverse about him. They only say, ‘He’s 27-1, Jim Harbaugh says he’s the perfect quarterback within the draft.’

“No one says something concerning 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 identical 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 Baby. No one ever says something unhealthy about him. And I can’t determine what there’s 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 like him. I can’t see what number of off-platform throws he makes, or how artistic 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 should react to in actual time, whether or not to make the throw as you get blasted, or to get out of hurt’s manner like (Patrick) Mahomes does weekly a few occasions each sport. Or Josh Allen simply uncorks a bomb to go win a sport.

“You simply don’t see these kind of throws from him. If I used to be Joe Schoen, I wouldn’t commerce up, lose belongings that they desperately want, which may develop 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 related issues this week.

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“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 have to eliminate all my belongings and draft this man’ as a result of a number of what he does doesn’t translate.”

We’ll quickly discover out if normal supervisor Joe Schoen shares related beliefs.