New York Giants QB Daniel Jones can "break" the team's season in 2024, according to analyst
The New York Giants have a quarterback conundrum. Their current QB wasn't healthy for much of last year. When he was, the offense still had their fair share of struggles. Daniel Jones simply has not proven to be worth his price tag since the Giants extended him. He is the biggest game changer for New […]
The New York Giants have a quarterback conundrum. Their current QB wasn't healthy for much of last year. When he was, the offense still had their fair share of struggles. Daniel Jones simply has not proven to be worth his price tag since the Giants extended him. He is the biggest game changer for New York this year.
Daniel Jones has a ton of pressure on him in 2024
Nick Shook of NFL.com listed the Giants QB as a potential "make or break" player this season.
The four-year, $160 million deal New York gave Jones last offseason looks bad right now. The former No. 6 overall pick reverted to his oft-injured, inconsistent form in 2023, producing results so ugly that the Giants openly mulled the possibility of adding another highly drafted quarterback to compete with the veteran. That’s not a good sign for Jones, a signal-caller who has never quite put up numbers worthy of a $40 million-per-year price tag. To those who think the Giants are beholden to Jones because of his contract, I have a counterpoint: New York can part with him for a very manageable dead cap number as low as $11.1 million in 2025, meaning it’s time for "Danny Dimes" to give the G-Men reason to stick with him. The pressure is on. — via Nick Shook
Shook is spot-on here.
Jones is a costly quarterback who hasn't proven that he can play to that level or stay healthy enough to be worth that sort of money. The Giants most likely know that it is a "do or die" type of year for the veteran QB.
Not to mention, they added QB Drew Lock to provide competition for Jones.
Lock has showed glimpses of good play at the NFL level, so any early struggles may push the Giants to bring in Lock as their starter at some point. At that point, it would probably be a foregone conclusion that New York would move on from Jones at the end of the season, even with the dead cap situation.
No matter what – the heat is turned up for the Giants quarterback in 2024.
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He decided to hang it up.
