Giants will answer their Daniel Jones question with NFL Draft approach

Any and every NFL draft is replete with questions about needs and priorities and rankings and roster construction, with the status of the general manager and the head coach (are they secure or are they on the hot seat?) and the forecast for the franchise all weaving their way into the many potential scenarios.For the Giants, what happens this year — more specifically, what goes down Thursday night — can be shaken and stirred and filtered into one basic query: Do they get a quarterback to eventually (2025 at the latest) replace Daniel Jones or do they not?That’s it.Of course there is so much more the Giants must accomplish to usher season No.3 for general manager Joe Schoen and coach Brian Daboll into a return to the winning they delivered in 2022 and were unable to sustain in 2023.

They do not have a true No.1 wide receiver or a No.

2 starting cornerback.There is the decade-long quest to fix the offensive line.

There are shortages at tight end (if Darren Waller retires) and safety (Xavier McKinney is with the Packers) and running back (Saquon Barkley is an Eagle!).The Giants enter this draft with only six picks — one in every round but the seventh — and could use help right away from at least three of those picks.How this all shakes out at quarterback, though, will determine how the 2024 draft ultimately impacts the entire operation.“It’s a unique position,’’ Schoen said.

“There’s only so many people walking planet Earth that can play that position at a high level.So really getting around these guys, we like to do it every year, and getting to know them, I think is important.’’Oh, the Giants got around them, with more vigor than usual.

This was not smokescreen interest designed to make other teams believe the Giants are hot for a quarterback.They are hot for a quarterback.

Whether they are hot, red-hot or white-hot remains to be seen.The feeling is the Giants are unlikely to be able to sit back with the No.6 overall pick and get thei...