Daniel Jones’ fifth-year option presents Giants with difficult decision
The Giants have never expressed any doubt that Daniel Jones is their quarterback, and that they plan for him to be their quarterback for a very long time. But that’s been easy to say while he’s still been playing on his rookie contract.
Now they’re going to have to back up that faith with cash.
They are now facing what seems like a very difficult decision — whether or not to pick up the fifth-year option on his contract for 2023, or let him play next year in what would be the final year of his deal. If they pick up the option it would be at a guaranteed cost of about $21.3 million, and they would have to make the decision by May 3.
That decision was going to be tough enough, but now they have to do it with an incomplete evaluation after Jones was officially shut down for the season on Monday with what the team is calling a “sprained neck.” He will have missed the final six games of a season, and in the first 11 he didn’t play particularly well.
Back in August, when co-owner John Mara was asked about Jones’ looming fifth-year option, he said, “Hopefully he stays healthy. Hopefully he’ll make it an easy decision for us by the end of the year.”
Unfortunately for Mara, Jones didn’t made it easy at all.
His play ranged from mediocre to poor. He completed 64.3% of his passes for 2,427 yards, with 10 touchdowns and seven interceptions. He ran an offense that at times looked dysfunctional and is clearly one of the worst in the league.
He’s also now missed games with an injury for a third straight season — certainly a concern when paying a player so much money. And overall, he’s sitting on a body of work that has been maddeningly inconsistent and has sparked far more questions than it has answered. The flashes of future stardom have been few and far between — even less so recently — and he’s shown no sign that he can rise above his circumstances and lead an NFL offense to even modest success.
So after three…
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