The New York Giants didn't pick Daniel Jones sixth overall in the 2019 NFL Draft to be the team's day-one starter. Eli Manning, for better or worse, is still the Giants' quarterback of the present, and as his father tells it, will provide Jones with the type of guidance in 2019 necessary to take advantage of a rookie season spent on the bench.
“Eli has handled it well,” Archie Manning said of New York drafting Jones, per ESPN's Jordan Ranaan. “They will work together well. Eli will be a good mentor. I assure you he'll be a good mentor. They'll have a good quarterback room. It will all work out.”
Jones, for his part, seems to be embracing the reality of sitting behind the two-time champion in 2019. Asked what he can learn most from Manning, the rookie made it clear he'd be focusing on how the 15-year veteran goes about his daily routine as an entrenched starting quarterback.
“I think a lot of it is in his routine,” he said. “I think anyone who has played that long and had that much success, he certainly has a routine and there is a reason he's had that success.
“So to me I think it's just watching him every day and learning from what he does every day and how he carries himself and how he prepares every week.”
Manning, 38, threw for 4,299 yards, 21 touchdowns, and 11 interceptions last season while completing 66.0 percent of his passes. The Giants went 5-11, putting them in position to draft a new franchise quarterback.
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