As soon as Daniel Jones signed his four-year, $160 million contract extension with the New York Giants, there must've immediately been some buyer's remorse on the part of Giants GM Joe Schoen. Now look, I'm not gonna rag on Daniel Jones too much here. People have already given Jones a hard enough time over the course of his short career, and after just suffering a torn ACL, there's no need to kick him while he's down. But that doesn't mean that Joe Schoen isn't going to symbolically wail on his “franchise quarterback” by doing his due diligence on the QB's eligible in the 2024 NFL Draft.
It's hard to imagine that Daniel Jones will be ready to go by the start of next season, and one would assume that the Giants don't plan on rolling into the 2024 season with reformed mobster/momma's boy Tommy DeVito or IR veteran Tyrod Taylor. With a high pick in the 2024 NFL Draft likely, why wouldn't the Giants explore the incoming class of quarterbacks? Well, that's exactly what Joe Schoen is doing.
Joe Schoen has already made in-person appearances at games of USC, North Carolina, LSU, Duke and Washington to scout Caleb Williams, Drake Maye, Jayden Daniels, Riley Leonard, and Michael Penix Jr. This sort of in-person scouting is not prohibited by the NCAA.
The optics of drafting Leonard, another Duke quarterback, to be the heir apparent for Daniel Jones would likely elicit widespread groans from Giants fans, but I have to imagine that fans of the G-Men would be elated if they went into the 2024 season with Williams, Maye, Daniels, or Penix Jr. as their QB1. What that means for Daniel Jones, I have no clue. There's a good chance that the contract Schoen handed to Jones will go down as an all-time bad deal.
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