Reporters suggest Giants could trade down, rather than up

Whispers are rising louder hinting that the New York Giants might both be unwilling or unable to maneuver up from the sixth general decide of the 2024 NFL Draft to choice No. 3 or No. 4 for a top-tier quarterback prospect. 

For a chunk revealed Thursday, Giants reporter Charlotte Carroll and Buffalo Bills reporter Joe Buscaglia of The Athletic urged that these two golf equipment may full a commerce that will contain the Giants shifting down, slightly than up, within the draft order. 

Of their situation, Buffalo would ship general picks No. 28 (first spherical), No. 60 (second) and No. 128 (fourth) this yr together with a 2025 first-round choice to New York in change for this yr’s sixth alternative and a 2025 seventh-round decide. 

“Although it’d be tough to surrender a premium decide and the prospect to land a star participant, the Giants have so many wants to deal with that stockpiling extra premium belongings makes numerous sense,” Carroll wrote in regards to the membership that completed this previous season at 6-11. “Maybe the most important cause why begins at quarterback. Including one other first-round decide to their arsenal places the Giants in place to focus on a quarterback within the 2025 NFL Draft. Now, early prognostications counsel that subsequent yr’s crop of QBs isn’t nice, nevertheless it’s additionally manner too early to know that for certain.”

Whereas a lot can and can change between now and when the draft opens on the evening of April 25, it is extensively believed that quarterbacks Caleb Williams (USC), Jayden Daniels (LSU), Drake Maye (North Carolina) and J.J. McCarthy (Michigan) would be the first 4 picks of the player-selection course of, assuming a membership such because the Minnesota Vikings, Las Vegas Raiders or Denver Broncos strikes as much as No. 4 or No. 5 general for a signal-caller. 

Giants common supervisor Joe Schoen reportedly is strongly contemplating shifting on from 2023 Week 1 starter Daniel Jones next offseason, so Schoen in all probability would not pull the set off on buying and selling down till he is aware of for certain a quarterback he desires will not be on the board at No. 6. It is usually price noting that the Giants may commerce down however stay within the top-10 of this yr’s draft. 

In a mock draft posted on Monday, Nick Baumgardner of The Athletic proposed that the Chicago Bears may commerce general decide Nos. 9 and 75 this yr together with a 2025 mid-round choice to the Giants for No. 6. Large Blue may then spend the ninth alternative on Georgia Bulldogs tight finish Brock Bowers.

Carroll acknowledged that the Giants shifting all the best way down into the ultimate a number of picks of the primary spherical of this yr’s draft may finally value Schoen and head coach Brian Daboll their jobs if the 2024 group finishes at 6-11 or worse. If, nevertheless, Giants co-owner John Mara indicators off on such a choice, Schoen may embrace buying badly wanted belongings for his ongoing rebuild, a rebuild that will not be completed in a single offseason.