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General manager Joe Schoen said that the injury guarantee for the 2025 NFL season in Daniel Jones‘ contract will not influence the Giants’ decision to play or sit the quarterback in the team’s final seven games of the season.
“We’re gonna evaluate everything the rest of the week and the decisions we make will be football decisions,” Schoen said at a Tuesday afternoon news conference during New York’s bye week after a 2-8 start to the season.
“It will be a football decision,” he continued. “Any decision we make moving forward as we evaluate the roster and what we’re doing for the final seven games will be football decisions.”
Head coach Brian Daboll was noncommittal on Monday about Jones’ status as the team’s starter for the rest of the year.
Contract language in the four-year, $160 million extension Jones signed ahead of the 2023 season after leading the Giants to a playoff berth and first-round win, guarantees next year’s salary in case of injury. With the contract containing no guaranteed salary for the remaining two seasons, opting to sit a healthy Jones for the season’s final games – similar to what Denver did with Russell Wilson a season ago – would allow them to walk away from the deal at the end of the year with a limited cap hit going forward.
Speaking of Wilson, the former Super Bowl champion who has appeared to resurrect his career in Pittsburgh this year after signing in free agency, visited the Giants this past offseason. Is not pursuing the veteran or another veteran quarterback more aggressively something Schoen regrets?
“Hmmm,” the GM said before shrugging his shoulders, shaking his head, and answering, “No.”
Does Schoen, who said he expects to return as GM next season, believe that where the Giants are with the quarterback situation – Jones starting with Drew Lock and Tommy DeVito deputizing him – is the best place they could be this season?
“With the options that were available [in free agency]? Yes,” he…
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Publish date : 2024-11-12 21:25:00
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