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The 2025 New York Giants need a quarterback.
You could make the argument the Giants have needed a quarterback since, like, 2016. But they absolutely need a quarterback next season after finally punting on Daniel Jones.
Tim fucking Boyle played for the Giants this year.
That’s rock bottom.
So let’s look around the NFL world and search for new QB1s. There has to be someone in the football world better than Tommy DeVito. There has to be.
Let’s rank 9 potential starting quarterback options for the 2025 New York Giants:
9. Russell Wilson
At one point in my life, I would’ve cried if I saw an Adam Schefter tweet saying the New York Giants traded for Russell Wilson.
Back when Eli Manning was dropping to the ground like Alex Mack turning into goo whenever a pass rusher was in his line of sight.
But going into 2025, acquiring Russell Wilson feels like a punishment.
He’ll be 37 years old coming off a decent playoff game against the Ravens but this Giants roster isn’t talented enough for Russ to come and just steer the ship.
The Giants ship is full of holes that an old weirdo can’t fill.
Better than Tim Boyle though.
8. Drew Lock
With Brian Daboll returning next season, why not run it back with Drew Lock for at least one more season?
If Daboll and GM Joe Schoen can use the draft and free agency to build a complimentary team around a guy we’ve at least seen proof of potential success with Malik Nabers and Tyrone Tracy Jr, like, there’s legit film of Drew Lock dominating in Daboll’s offense already.
Drew Lock has 5 Touchdowns! pic.twitter.com/DaVZEmfheg
— PropSwap (@PropSwap) December 29, 2024
Maybe we don’t need to overthink this whole thing.
Lock played better than Daniel Jones ever did and Jones was given half a decade of chances to fail.
7. Jalen Milroe
A rookie QB should be on the 2025 New York Giants roster, even if he’s not drafted in the first round.
Over 50 air-yards on a dime to Jermaine Burton in the endonze. Great arm-strength and accuracy by Jalen Milroe.
Also does a good job avoiding the rush and stepping into the throw. #NFLDraft pic.twitter.com/9qtoamd1hI
— WBG84 (@WBG84) January 15, 2025
I see Alabama star, Jalen Milroe at the top of a lot of QB draft rankings but I feel like his stock will plummet by the time we get to the draft.
For one, guys like Will Howard and Jaxson Dart and Quinn Ewers look like NFL quarterbacks while some scouts will tell Milroe to consider switching to wide receiver.
Also, be on the lookout for their little Wonderlic scores to leak and for scouts to call Jalen Milroe dumb or something.
Milroe will most likely survive to the 3rd or 4th round and he’s worth the lottery ticket. Racial bias may actually work in the Giants favor.
6. Anthony Richardson
From everything I read about the 2024 Indianapolis Colts, Anthony Richardson did not take his job seriously.
He’s got a lot of Johnny Manziel in him in that he seems to just go out there and vibe without taking the time during the week to study opposing defense’s tendencies or understanding pass protections and all that. He just has an electric arm and when his back isn’t broken, he’s a dynamic runner too.
Anthony Richardson might have the highest ceiling of anyone on this list.
I keep seeing Josh Allen comparisons. Well, if Brian Daboll really put Josh Allen on the right track to become the perennial MVP candidate he is today then do it again with Anthony Richardson.
Although, if he can’t focus in the middle of Indianapolis, I can’t imagine Richardson will suddenly lock in when he’s a 25-minute drive from Manhattan.
It’s like a 50-minute train ride for me and I am RECKLESS.
5. Sam Darnold
I love the NFL, man. You can put up MVP numbers over a long 17-game sample size but if you lose one singular playoff game, none of that MVP season matters and you are worse than garbage, forced to live in shame for the remainder of your life.
How to fumble away $160 Million Dollars: a Sam Darnold story
— NFL Notifications (@NFLNotify) January 14, 2025
Sam Darnold was swarmed with pass rushers all game long and sure, he may have held the ball too long at times but the Rams defense deserves credit for putting Darnold in hell, which is possible in a random elimination game.
I don’t believe Darnold is now obsolete.
If anything, that playoff stinker is better for the Giants contract negotiations. They could sign him for grocery store minimum wage prices.
4. Tua Tagovailoa
The Miami Dolphins are about to have a yard sale on their front lawn this offseason.
Tyreek Hill and Jalen Ramsey already have their bags packed.
Tua Tagovailoa appears to have hit his head on the career ceiling.
The jig is up.
He can’t outduel these top AFC QBs, especially if they play outdoors with a slight chill in the air.
HOWEVER, Tua is astronomically better than Daniel Jones and I feel like he can hold his own against Derek Carr, Geno Smith and Brock Purdy.
Tua and Jalen Hurts can have a hand-off-off twice a year.
We love to focus on what guys can’t do but you know what Tua Tagovailoa can do? Accurately throw the ball directly to Malik Nabers’s paws 12-15 times a game.
My only fear as a Giants fan is watching Tua die on the field because for some reason he’s allowed to continue being an NFL quarterback even though he’s collecting concussions like Thanos collecting Infinity Stone except he’s one concussion away from physically being unable to ever snap his fingers again.
3. Marcus Mariota
The Giants should be on the lookout for the next Baker Mayfield—a former Heisman winner and first-round draft pick with a chip on his shoulder and enough L’s over his career to be physically, mentally and emotionally ready for the keys of an NFL franchise.
Marcus Mariota started two games for the Washington Commanders this season.
He won both starts, including a 40-7 blowout against the Panthers and a last-second, back-of-the-endzone touchdown pass to Terry McLaurin.
Given the year he just had with Kliff Kingsbury and that environment Dan Quinn built where they believe they can win every game each Sunday—Marcus Mariota could be the perfect cheap, under-the-radar, floor-raising signing to give the New York Giants some legitimacy again and make them competitive week-to-week.
2. Cam Ward
Thanks to Drew Lock having one of the best games in NFL history to make sure the Giants couldn’t get the No. 1 pick, New York fell to the 3rd pick—but they can still get the QB they want.
The Tennesee Titans will most likely draft Shedeur Sanders.
That feels set in stone. Don’t care how much red, white and blue gear Sanders owns. He won’t be on the Giants.
The Titans need a young franchise guy they can get excited about who won’t blackout and throw a pick-six to a D-Lineman at the start of a game after tripping over his own cleats—the Will Levis special.
The Cleveland Browns secured the 2 pick but it wouldn’t make sense to use a pick that high on a QB when they are financially handcuffed to Deshaun Watson. The salary cap is so damaged, it restricts how talented the rest of the roster could be so you’d be setting up a first-round pick to fail.
Cam Ward could easily be available at 3.
Every touchdown from Cam Ward’s record-setting season with @CanesFootball 🙌 pic.twitter.com/gssW3jPHuX
— ACC Network (@accnetwork) December 14, 2024
In which case, yea, draft him. Duh.
1. Kyler Murray
If the Arizona Cardinals decide to move on from Kyler Murray, he’d easily be the most talented quarterback available.
Kyler Murray dances around and fires his third TD 😳
99-YARD TD DRIVE WOW.
(via @NFL)
pic.twitter.com/7fVSCDrPSc— Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) September 15, 2024
Are you kidding?
Daniel Jones would’ve been sacked 7 times on that one play.
Kyler Murray had more passing yards than Matthew Stafford and Josh Allen.
More touchdown passes than Stafford and CJ Stroud.
He was 5th in success rate which means he was always moving the chains—pairing perfectly with the way Brian Daboll’s offense works best when it’s methodically picking up yards and killing opposing defenses with a million cuts—except Kyler is capable of explosive plays at any time.
He’d walk in day one as the most talented quarterback in the NFC East and I’ll only allow Jayden Daniels in that conversation with him.
Put Kyler Murray and Malik Nabers together and let’s go 17-0.
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