Scout's Take: Assessing Giants starting quarterback Daniel Jones
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Former NFL scout Matt Williamson writes about the league from an X's and O's perspective. Rookie Daniel Jones was handed the reins of the Giants' offense on Tuesday, effectively ending the Eli Manning era. The timing is right. The Giants are 0-2 and were ouScout's Take: Assessing Giants starting quarterback Daniel Jones
Former NFL scout Matt Williamson writes about the league from an X's and O's perspective. Rookie Daniel Jones was handed the reins of the Giants' offense on Tuesday, effectively ending the Eli Manning era. The timing is right. The Giants are 0-2 and were outscored by a combined 32 points against Dallas and Buffalo. New York plays at Tampa Bay in Week 3 and hosts Washington in Week 4. Those games might be winnable, but this is a bad team on both sides of the ball. Here's my scouting report on Jones: 1. Tools Let's get this out of the way first: Jones, who didn't quite complete 60 percent of his passes in three seasons as a starter at Duke, certainly would not have been my selection with the sixth overall selection in the 2019 draft. That was way too early. That being said, Jones did surprise me with high-level play in the preseason (29-for-34, 416 yards, 85.3% completion percentage) . He has a lot of skills to work with. Jones stands 6-foot-5 with a good frame for a quarterback and has potential to gradually Read more