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Ralph Vacchiano
NFC East Reporter
Daniel Jones knew what the New York Giants were trying to do on the first night of the 2024 NFL Draft. He knew they were attempting to trade up and draft his eventual successor. They were honest about their intentions. He understood why it was happening.
But that doesn’t mean he was happy about it.
“I mean, I wasn’t fired up about it,” Jones said after practice on Thursday afternoon. “But I think it’s part of it at this level. What I can do is focus on myself and getting healthy, play the best football I can play, and that I know I’m capable of playing. That’s my job and that’s what I’m going to do.”
That’s pretty much all the Giants’ incumbent starting quarterback can do at the moment, as he continues to work his way back from the torn ACL he suffered early last season. That injury, along with two injuries to his neck in three seasons, is a big reason why the Giants had their eyes on quarterbacks in the draft. It didn’t help that in the six games Jones did play last season, he was mostly awful.
It was no secret that Giants general manager Joe Schoen spent the offseason scouting, researching and visiting with all the top quarterbacks in the draft while Jones was busy trying to get healthy. And in the days leading up to the first round, Schoen made multiple attempts to trade up from the Giants’ pick at No. 6, according to team and league sources, in the hopes of landing Drake Maye, the quarterback who was selected third overall by the New England Patriots.
Once that effort failed, the Giants stayed at 6 where they could have taken a quarterback like J.J. McCarthy, Bo Nix and Michael Penix Jr. Instead, they grabbed receiver Malik Nabers — the kind of weapon Jones, who turns 27 on Monday, hasn’t had at any point in his five-year career.
“I wasn’t sure what was going to happen or how it was going to play out. I was just watching and waiting to see like everybody else,” Jones said….
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Publish date : 2024-05-23 20:00:42
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