Joe Schoen admitted on Tuesday that when he took the job as New York Giants’ general manager last offseason he did not believe he would be giving Daniel Jones a long-term deal to be the team’s franchise quarterback a year later.
“If I thought I was going to be here a year ago I would have done the fifth-year option,” Schoen said.
Had Schoen picked up that fifth-year option, Jones would be playing 2023 on a one-year $22.4 million deal rather than the four-year, $160 million deal the quarterback signed on Tuesday night.
“I knew from doing work on Daniel coming out of the draft the type of person he was, from everybody in the building the type of person he was, his work ethic.