There are 32 NFL teams, and at any given time, there are only about a dozen carve-their-names-in-stone quarterbacks starting in the league. So what do you do if you're a team without one of those lucky dozen? There's a lot of hope and prayer involved. You hope the incoming quarterback draft class is deep. You pray that your scouts can unearth a hidden gem. You cycle through backup and free-agent quarterbacks, looking for treasure among other teams' castoffs.
Quite the turnaround from June 2019, when a
New York selected Jones sixth overall in 2019 with the obvious endgame of replacing franchise legend Eli Manning. It’s easy to play after-the-fact draft expert, but if New York had stuck with Manning for one more year, the Giants would have been picking in a draft that included Joe Burrow, Tua Tagovailoa, Justin Herbert and Jalen Hurts. Or, if the Giants had gone QB with the No.
The image of Jones as an overwhelmed, interception-slinging stopgap has persisted — fueled, in part, by New York’s April decision not to pick up his fifth-year option — but he’s spent 2022 rewriting his own narrative. He leads the league with a 1.1 percent interception percentage. He’s eighth in the league in completion percentage. He ranks 13th — which, you’ll note, is just outside the top dozen — in quarterback rating, and 15th in total yardage.
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