Former Minnesota Vikings wide receiver Cris Carter believes that he knows why the New York Giants used the first of the team's two first round picks on former Duke quarterback Daniel Jones.
“I just can’t go on without saying this: If Dwayne Haskins, as an African-American, goes to Duke and puts up those mediocre stats – seventh in the conference. He’s not drafted Day 1 or damn Day 2,” Carter recently said on his ‘First Things First' program on FS1. “So when you start talking about ‘a guy can’t comprehend’ – that stuff is racial.”
In response to Carter, his co-host Nick Wright chimed in with his two cents as well.
“He might not have been drafted at all,” Wright added. “We might be at a place right now in the NFL that teams are OKwhen they weren’t before with the black quarterback that’s real athletic and runs around. And does some things that used to be, ‘Oh, that used to be a college quarterback.’
“But this is a black quarterback that’s not real athletic, that is just a drop-back passer. He’s going to have to beat you with his brain and his arm. It’s like, ‘Oh, he doesn’t run? He’s not athletic? Well, eh, I’ll go with this 6 [foot] 5 white kid from Duke because he reminds me more of the quarterbacks I’ve seen.'”
With the Giants picking at No. 6 and No. 17 — and eventually No. 30 — in the 2019 NFL Draft, New York selected the aforementioned Daniel Jones with the team's first pick on Thursday evening.
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