The Washington Commanders were transformed by his incredible rookie season in 2024, but the young QB could easily have gone elsewhere.
This is the GM that ignored his son’s advice to draft Jayden Daniels
Having failed to make the playoffs for two consecutive season, and recording just one postseason win in eight years, the long-suffering Giants fans are in need of fresh hope.
The Giants took QB Jaxson Dart in the first round of the 2025 NFL Draft. However, the quarterback situation could already have been resolved had general manager Joe Schoen been a bit more decisive in the 2024 draft.
Footage from the docuseries Hard Knocks showed Schoen’s son telling him to trade up to take Jayden Daniels in the 2024 Draft. But he didn’t, the Giants failed to strengthen at QB, and now there’s another quarteback controversy: Russell Wilson or Jaxson Dart.
On top of that, the Commanders’ QB led his team to beat the Giants in Week 1 of the 2025 NFL season.
Giants GM Joe Schoen’s son said the team should trade up and get Jayden Daniels in the 2024 draft 😳
— Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) January 25, 2025
Now Daniels and the Commanders are headed to the NFC Championship 🏆
(via @StreamOnMax, @Giants, @NFL) pic.twitter.com/LjH5iROAvp
Could the Giants have drafted Jayden Daniels?
In Schoen’s defence, the Giants would have needed to do a lot of work to trade up from No. 6 to No. 2 to snatch Daniels. But Schoen Jnr wasn’t the only one who was pushing for decisive action to open the door to the LSU quarterback.
Hard Knocks also shows Giants head coach Brian Daboll being asked whether he would considering trading up to take him.
Schoen asked the coach, “Daniels: Have you guys seen enough that you would trade up for him?” Daboll answered, “Daniels? I would.”
“To be honest with you, I’m a fan of Cam Ward,” Tracy revealed. “Just because I think the passing and the running, that’s where the league is shifting to, and just off of Dabs’s offense, we have a whole bunch of QB runs and situations where the QB has to run. I’m not saying other quarterbacks in the draft can’t run, I just know Cam Ward is the best off of film.”
Cam Ward eventually ended up getting drafted as the No. 1 pick in 2025 by the Tennessee Titans.
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