As post-NFL Scouting Mix rumors proceed circulating, it is rising obvious that the New York Giants are making ready to pick out quarterback Daniel Jones’ successor this offseason.
In a Q&A chunk revealed on Thursday, SNY’s Connor Hughes — who was on-site eventually week’s mix — reported that Giants GM Joe Schoen is prepared to draft a quarterback within the first spherical. New York holds the sixth general choose within the 2024 NFL Draft, although it is attainable the staff may attempt to commerce as much as choose UNC’s Drake Maye or LSU’s Jayden Daniels.
“It grew to become very clear in Indianapolis that Schoen is able to draft his man — both at No. 6 or by buying and selling up,” Hughes wrote. “Drake Maye and Jayden Daniels are the 2 I heard linked to New York probably the most. Maye, particularly, they’re excessive on.”
Though the Giants simply signed Jones to a four-year, $160M deal final offseason, it might be smart to usher in his eventual alternative by means of the draft.
Jones confirmed flashes of promise through the 2022 season when he led the Giants to their first playoff win since Tremendous Bowl XLVI. Nevertheless, he struggled in 2023, and his harm historical past grew to become extra difficult as he suffered the second neck harm of his profession and a season-ending ACL tear. As a regime which may want improved outcomes subsequent season to retain their jobs, the Giants entrance workplace can not afford to double down on Jones as their quarterback of the longer term.
Maye and Daniels are extremely intriguing targets for the Giants to think about as their potential first-round draft selection. The 2 are thought of second- and third-ranked prospects for the place on this 12 months’s draft, however in no explicit order.
The previous Tar Heel Maye is a extra conventional passer, throwing 7,929 yards and 62 touchdowns during the last two seasons. In the meantime, Daniels established himself as an elite dual-threat expertise throughout his 2023 Heisman Trophy-winning season (4,946 yards of whole offense and 50 TDs).
Nevertheless, given the challenges of buying and selling up for Maye or Daniels, Hughes believes Michigan QB J.J. McCarthy can be New York’s choose at No. 6 as an alternative of a high vast receiver. In his article, Hughes famous that “there have been quite a lot of rumblings on the mix” that linked McCarthy to the Giants.
McCarthy, who went 27-1 as a starter at Michigan, is arguably the largest thriller of the 2024 quarterback class. Whereas the 21-year-old has all of the intangibles a staff may need out of a signal-caller and a nationwide championship win underneath his belt, McCarthy lacks the excessive manufacturing stage in comparison with the opposite high QB prospects.
Even so, there are a number of explanation why drafting McCarthy sixth general might be a greater route for the Giants as an alternative of buying and selling up within the first spherical, though it looks like a attain.
NFL Community’s Daniel Jeremiah lately reported that the Giants may need to supply the New England Patriots the sixth choose and three second-round picks to maneuver as much as No. 3. New York may have various commerce companions. Nonetheless, given the value that Jeremiah urged, it might be higher off holding onto its second-rounders.
The Giants personal the Nos. 39 and 47 picks on this 12 months’s second spherical. With as loaded a large receiver class as we might have ever seen, there would possibly nonetheless be a future star wideout accessible early within the second spherical whom the Giants may choose to enhance their underwhelming receiving corps.
Moreover, the Giants will not minimize ties with Jones till subsequent offseason since he is set to hold a $47.1M cap hit in 2024, which might profit McCarthy’s growth as a result of he may “redshirt” as a rookie.
Nonetheless, if Giants possession has full confidence in HC Brian Daboll, they need to don’t have any challenge resetting at quarterback this offseason and letting him develop a rookie, whether or not that be Maye, Daniels or McCarthy.
