Giants GM Joe Schoen reveals team’s Daniel Jones stance

Daniel Jones wants the Giants. And the Giants need Daniel Jones.

A day after the upcoming free-agent quarterback mentioned he “love(s) this place” and needs to stick with the workforce, Giants common supervisor Joe Schoen mentioned Monday that the group needs to maintain the previous first-round choose.

“We’d like Daniel to be right here,” Schoen mentioned. “He mentioned it yesterday, there’s a enterprise aspect to it, however we really feel like Daniel performed properly this season. He’s finished the whole lot that we requested him to do. Once more, there’s a enterprise aspect to it, we haven’t went down that highway but. We nonetheless gotta have our conferences with our workers late within the week and we’ll devise an offseason plan. We haven’t had these conferences but, however we wish to have Daniel Jones again.”

Jones, 25, had a profession 12 months with the Giants in his fourth season, throwing for 3,205 yards and 15 touchdowns in opposition to 5 interceptions whereas finishing 67.2 p.c of his passes. He additionally set career-highs with 120 rushes, 708 yards dashing and 7 dashing touchdowns.

The Giants declined Jones’ fifth-year possibility final offseason.

“He’s finished a extremely good job with working and executing our offense,” head coach Brian Daboll mentioned Monday. “He’s made strides in plenty of completely different areas.”