Giants Start Mini-Camp

Here we go with the Shurmur Era.  This morning it was revealed that the Giants have been engaged in Ereck Flowers trade talks.  Couldn't hut.  Still need to find a right tackle, unless Wheeler took advantage of his year in and NFL weightroom.  But let's talk a little bit about Shurmur and this class of QB's. Shurmur comes to the Giants with a well earned reputation as a QB whiz. Before you get to excited, Fassel did, too.  Anyway, you might reasonably think that, knowing Eli can't play forever, even with a rebuilt line, that Shurmur would be allowed to pick his guy.  Shurmur has talked about what he wants in a QB, and I guess if there is someone like that there at 2, it would be understandable for the Giants to go for it.   I'd rather do something else, because I'm not crazy about these QB's, and think the more intriguing guys are outside that top 4 group of Allen, Rosen, Mayfield and Darnold.

Of those, I favor Darnold, who I saw lots at USC, but was better as a Sophomore than as a junior, though might really benefit from spending a year or more learning behind Eli.

Rosen has the concussion issue, but a great arm, and with his tennis background, should be more mobile in the pocket than he is.  If the medicals are clean or comparable to everyone else's, he could be a great project for Shurmur.

Allen is the best athlete of the bunch and has the biggest arm with the best velo (like Davis Webb).  However; Allen's completion % was below 60% and who knows if even a QB whisperer like Shurmur could fix that.

Finally, there is Baker Mayfield, who is just 6' but has big hands and good velocity.  He's also quick in the pocket and good at finding his windows.  That said, he has alreay lost a QB competition to Davis Webb so who knows what the Giants think of him.

Anyway, it seems like Sam Darnold is the cleanest of these guys but I'm sort of expecting him to go to Cleveland at #1.   And I'd still rather have Saquon Barkley than any of these guys.