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Let’s Rank The 11 Quarterbacks Who Should Be Starting For The 2025 New York Giants

The 2025 New York Giants could look totally different with Daniel Jones euthanized this week. Let’s rank the potential QBs for Big Blue.

2025 New York Giants

Daniel Jones is finally out of here.

Dave Gettleman will pay for the damage he caused the Giants organization drafting a running back with the no. 2 pick behind the worst offensive line in the NFL and then the following year, drafting a QB with the no. 6 pick who would have 100000% been available in the like, 5th or 6th round.

6 years later and New York has finally rid itself of the disease of mediocrity. They have freed themselves from the shackles of white ordinariness and can now build a contender no longer tethered to the bruised spine of Daniel Jones.

So let’s look across the football landscape and talk about some guys who could come in and replace arguably one of the worst starting quarterbacks in NFL history.

Re-treads

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11. Marcus Mariota

Coming into this season, I probably would’ve been fine with Mariota signing the deal Drew Lock got.

Whatever.

Mariota is a decent QB and I looked at him about the same as Lock. Both guys will lose a bunch of games because they don’t read NFL defenses that well because the NFL is astronomically harder than college.

But Mariota started a game for the Washington Commanders this season and got busy.

I know it was against the Carolina Panthers but Mariota went 18-for-23 for 205 yards and 2 touchdowns.

For comparison sake, Daniel Jones’s last career start was against the Panthers and he had 0 touchdowns with 2 interceptions.

Marcus Mariota is an upgrade.

10. Joe Flacco

The newfound old man charm Joe Flacco was walking around with is quickly fading.

He brought the Cleveland Browns to the playoffs last season but it was more so the outstanding defense carrying the burden of overcoming Flacco’s backbreaking interceptions and just overall terrible decisions.

Anthony Richardson lost his starting job to Flacco and locked the fuck in.

He beat the Jets on Sunday. Richardson took away Joe Flacco’s AND Joe Douglas’s jobs.

9. Sam Darnold

Sam Darnold may have earned himself some generational wealth this season but I fear whoever signs him may see the real Darnold show up to camp.

The Darnold that doesn’t get to close his eyes and chuck it to Justin Jefferson somewhere.

But the Giants have a Malik Nabers and at only 27 years old, Darnold could be the franchise QB for the next decade.

8. Justin Fields

Both Russell Wilson and Justin Fields will be free agents this summer and the Pittsburgh Steelers are most likely winning the division so it’s not as if they’ll be able to simply draft their QB of the future.

I could see Russell Wilson coming back and hilariously overstaying his welcome in what will inevitably be a disaster for the 2025 Pittsburgh Steelers. The Giants cannot pass up on Justin Fields and the positive PR campaign that’ll follow him to his next landing spot. Do not let the New York Jets get that good press next year.

Blockbuster trades

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7. Dak Prescott

Jerry Jones is running the Dallas Cowboys like an inner city after-school program fighting to stay open as the town re-allocates funds to send more cops into the subways.

Dak Prescott signed a 4-year, $240 million extension right before Week 1 this season.

Now Dak is out with a season-ending hamstring injury and this entire roster looks structurally flawed.

The basement is flooded, the windows are shattered, the roof has leaks, the walls aren’t sealed.

The contractor robbed you. You may need to find legal representation.

If Jerry Jones is going to put his phone on Do Not Disturb mode the moment free agency begins then he’ll need a haul of draft picks to re-tool his busted house with cheap, discounted parts.

Trading Dak Prescott and starting from scratch is probably the right move—whether the Giants participate or not.

Jones doesn’t seem like a cat who gives a shit about the term ‘dead cap money’.

6. Matthew Stafford

Matty Stafford turns 37 in a couple months. He’s still owed $49 million through 2026.

If Sean McVay is the level of sorcerer I know he believes himself to be, he’s already designing the Daniel Jones LA Rams offense for next season when he flips Stafford for Vanilla Vick and turns him into the next Steve Young.

5. Trevor Lawrence

This is entirely wishful thinking.

A healthy organization would never consider trading Trevor Lawrence but the Jaguars are tumor-stuffed. They hired Urban Meyer to coach and Urban didn’t even know who any of the NFL players were.

If the Giants can get their hands on Trevor Lawrence, they need to be willing to trade anything it takes. Trevor Lawrence would be the most physically talented QB in Giants history.

He’s only 25 years old.

I think he’s just been surrounded by lackluster educators, confidence-ridden skill players and the hottest dinner spot in town, the local Chilli’s.

Maybe Lawrence could thrive in an environment with Brain Daboll—who managed to squeeze some glimpses of brilliance from the black hole of dogshit that is Daniel Jones—or with Malik Nabers—who never seems to lack confidence. Not for a second.

Or he could live somewhere that’s always 30 minutes away from wherever Charli XCX is spilling all her coke.

#FreeTrevorLawrence

NFL Draft

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4. Quinn Ewers

I like Quinn Ewers. I mean, I’d rather not see him in a Giants jersey because he looks like a star in college who has an inescapable future as the next Derek Carr.

And although I don’t believe Ewers has any chance of drilling in a new shelf to hold his Super Bowl MVP on the wall, I still think Ewers would be walking in day one as a better football player than this guy:

3. Shedeur Sanders

I recognize why people think Shedeur Sanders is the best prospect in this draft but I think he’s almost a guaranteed bust. I’ve read too many Shedeur Sanders tweets. There’s no other NFL quarterback who has more than like, 7 total tweets and they’re all typically just Bose headphones ads.

It doesn’t matter how talented he may be, Baby Prime is not focused enough. Too many things can go wrong over the course of an NFL season and I don’t think Shedeur is built for the turbulence.

Hopefully Shedeur gets some sort of Geno Smith or Baker Mayfield renaissance in 2029 after he gets several coaches fired and sets an organization back—losing a generation of young fans to intravenous drugs and unprotected sex.

Thanks a lot, Shedeur. You destroyed a whole community.

2. Cam Ward

The Giants were the last team in the NFL to start a black quarterback and it happened recently. The Giants are literally in this mess because they took good ol’ boy Daniel Jones instead of the more difficult-to-sunburn, Dwayne Haskins. (May he rest.)

Cam Ward is black as hell.

We’re about to learn A LOT about John Mara this draft.

Cam Ward can slang that disk, boy.

The Prince Who Was Promised

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1. Tommy DeVito

Ideally, yes, the best-case scenario for the New York Giants is their undrafted free-agent QB who was born and raised in the city and makes less money than a school teacher right now becoming an All-Pro QB in the second half of this season, allowing the Giants to use their top draft pick to build a SQUAD around big Tommy.

If Tommy DeVito has a couple 300-yard bangers but still loses enough games to keep the Giants at the top of the draft—establishing himself as an actual, real NFL starting quarterback that forces opposing defenses to make sure they get their 2 REM cycles in the night before.

DeVito probably sucks and the Giants should clean house but god, what if Tommy Noodles just has that sicko in him?

He’s probably just going to get sacked 11 times and look like dogshit, isn’t he?

 

 

 

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