Early Monday morning, it was announced that the New York Football Giants would be making a long-awaited change at quarterback. Daniel Jones, who has been the starter (when healthy) since entering the league in 2019, is on the bench. No, that’s not accurate. Not quite.
Daniel Jones is no longer the starter, and he’s not even the backup. He is now outranked by former Seattle Seahawks backup Drew Lock. Jones has been passed over in favor of both Tommy DeVito, who is now the starter, and Lock, who signed a one-year deal with the Giants this offseason.
From 2022-2023, Drew Lock was a Seahawk. He started two games in Geno Smith’s absence due to injury and performed quite well in relief. He likely used his stellar performance in MNF last season to extend his career in the league with the aforementioned extension. Considering how much quarterback Daniel Jones has struggled in every year of his career aside from the 2022 season when he wasn’t completely terrible, it made sense that the Giants would want insurance behind him. The irony, of course, is that Lock is now Tommy DeVito’s insurance policy.
Last year, Tommy DeVito, replacing the injured Jones, started six games and won three of them. He threw eight touchdowns against just three interceptions, but had none in his last two starts — both of which were losses. However, DeVito’s eight touchdown passes last year in six games are equal to the number of touchdowns Daniel Jones has thrown in 2024.
It was too late for New York to move on from Jones, who somehow managed to keep the starter well past the point where he should have been benched. In a league where teams are abandoning young quarterbacks at a faster rate than ever, Jones inexplicably got to start 69 games, compiling a 24-44-1 record. In 2022, Jones somehow helped lead the Giants to a 9-6-1 record and even won a Wild Card playoff game. He only had fifteen touchdown passes that year, but apparently that was more than good enough for New York to give him a four-year, $160 million extension.
Unfortunately, with Jones so deep on the depth chart, this likely means his last win of the season came in Week 5 against… the Seattle Seahawks, where two of his eight touchdown passes of the season were thrown in the 29-20 victory at Lumen Field. Incredibly annoying.
I’ll close with one more comment about Drew Lock. For all the talk about how Giants head coach Brian Daboll is an “offensive mastermind,” he still fails to make Lock a starting caliber player. Meanwhile, former Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll had Lock playing quality football in his two starts in 2023, including a heroic win over Monday night football.
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This article originally appeared on Seahawks Wire: Around the NFL: Former Seahawks QB Drew Lock now primary backup in New York
