INDIANAPOLIS — Every part Joe Schoen stated Tuesday on the NFL Mix pointed to the Giants taking a run at Matthew Stafford if the L.A. Rams make the Tremendous Bowl successful quarterback obtainable in a commerce.
“We’re gonna look for the best player available that can help us win games in ’25,” Schoen stated of his quarterback search, when requested if a participant’s age would deter him. “That’s what we’re gonna do.”
The Giants’ GM didn’t blink when requested if he could be keen to pay for a top-end quarterback, both. And that’s what the workforce buying Stafford, 37, must do: signal him to a market degree extension.
“I’m for taking swings at that position,” Schoen stated. “It’s the most important position, and it’s hard to find them, so keep swinging. Keep swinging at the position until you find one.”
The fourth-year GM wouldn’t disclose if the Giants had been one of many groups that’s having approved, exploratory conversations with Stafford and his agent right here this week in regards to the potential parameters of a brand new scenario.
“You have to ask the Rams that,” Schoen stated. “You can get that from the Rams. I can’t talk about that. He’s under contract with them. So that’d be a question for the Rams.”
It’s attainable the Rams will put an finish to all of this drama quickly anyway by agreeing with Stafford on a brand new deal to maintain him on the West Coast.
However for now a Stafford commerce stays attainable, which suggests the door continues to be open to a different intriguing quarterback relocation:
Aaron Rodgers to the Rams.
So hypothetically, the Rams may purchase vital property by buying and selling Stafford and broad receiver Cooper Kupp. Then they may additionally add Rodgers and Adams to a Sean McVay offense with No. 1 broad receiver Puka Nacua and operating again Kyren Williams.
Los Angeles has accomplished a formidable job turning its roster over with promising younger expertise just lately, so buying and selling an older QB so as to add one wouldn’t be a sustainable resolution. However it may reload them for a run again to the playoffs.
Whether or not the Rams assist them out or not, although, the Giants are pondering huge at quarterback. And their depth chart is so barren on the place that Schoen admitted he may take huge swings on each a veteran and a draft choose in April.
“Even if you get a young quarterback, you’d like to have a vet in the room with him to show him the ropes and how to be a pro,” Schoen stated. “So we’re looking at all different avenues: It’s, ‘Hey, is this guy gonna be really good for a young quarterback, or is this guy a starter?’
“Can we get a guy in the draft, or if we do, should we have a [veteran] guy that’s more of a guy that can develop and show a guy how to be a pro?” the GM added. “So we’re gonna look at vets, the draft, trade candidates. We’re gonna look under every rock to find the best prospect for us going into the 2025 season.”
This places Colorado’s Shedeur Sanders and Miami’s Cam Ward firmly nonetheless within the Giants’ combine with both the No. 3 total choose or a commerce up.
Schoen got here off as lukewarm in regards to the total quarterback class thus far, although. He steadily talked about that the Giants are nonetheless making an attempt to find out if a franchise-changing QB even exists on this draft.
He stated it could be good to land a 15-year franchise QB, however the choice can’t be compelled.
“In theory, yeah, everybody wants that. There’s just not a franchise quarterback tree over there,” Schoen stated. “So what’s available is what you’re looking at. So to take one just to say we checked the box, you want it to be the right one, because you don’t want to be in this position again.
“So if there’s not one of those guys, then you look at the other options,” he stated. “And then there’s the vet options you can look through, too.”
Not one of the different vet choices transfer the needle towards Schoen’s aim to search out one of the best winner for 2025 like Stafford, nonetheless. Not even the four-time MVP Rodgers at this stage of his profession.
The Giants GM wants high-end quarterback play to vary the efficiency and notion of his roster, to assist his case that Daniel Jones’ offense has held the remainder of the workforce again.
“I think the quarterback elevates the rest of the roster,” he stated.
And whereas Schoen stated he has “several different plans” for addressing the QB place that co-owner John Mara is conscious of, “there’s only so many of those guys” who’re true distinction makers.
“It depends who it is,” he stated. “I don’t know who that player is. We’ll see.”
He famous that including a veteran earlier than the draft can forestall a GM from having to “draft for need,” liberating him to “take the best player available.”
So which quarterback are the Giants in the end making an attempt so as to add?
“Whoever gives us the best chance to win,” Schoen stated. “That’s what it is. Some people are available for certain reasons, whether it’s a 28-year-old, 26-year-old, whatever it is. Sometimes these quarterbacks are available.
“So whoever gives you the best chance to win,” he stated, “that’s what we’re gonna do.”
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