Should Giants Consider Moving Up in Draft Order for No. 1 Overall Pick?
Regarding roster building, New York Giants general manager Joe Schoen likes to say, "Scared money don't make money."
But if one is going to be bold with spending, especially when one has the number of holes the Giants have on their roster, they better be 1,000 percent sure that the investment they're going to make cannot miss.
Such is the dilemma the Giants find themselves in regarding this year's draft. Schoen has admitted that the team needs a quarterback and has not ruled out finding one in the draft.
The problem is the Giants draft sixth in the order, and there are at least two teams--Washington and New England--ahead of them who need quarterbacks and who could be in the running to snag one of the top-three prospects (Caleb Wiliams, Jayden Daniels, and Drake Maye) as they fall down the board.
It will also be interesting to see if the Chicago Bears, who hold the first overall pick in the draft thanks to their trade last year with the Carolina Panthers, stick with Justin Fields or look to move on from him by starting fresh with a new quarterback.
It's too soon to say for sure what any of those teams will do, but one thing that seems apparent, according to NFL Network insider Ian Rapoport, is that if the Bears move out of the first overall pick, they will want a “historic haul.”
That might not be something the Giants are willing to give up, not with no compensatory picks coming their way to fill needs across the board, and not with four picks within the top 70 of the draft order.
Although Schoen is no stranger to moving up for a quarterback--he was part of a Buffalo Bills draft team that moved from 12th to seventh in 2018 to draft quarterback Josh Allen, exchanging their first-round pick with the Bucs and including the 53rd and 56th overall picks in the deal, the Giants would probably need to surrender a lot more to move up to No. 1 overall.
But should they? Again, the answer is no unless Schoen is convinced that one of Maye, Williams, or Saniels is a sure-fire, ca n't-miss prospect. And even if he does feel that way about one of the prospects, does it make sense to trade away premium picks when the offensive line remains unsettled and the team lacks a No. 1 receiver?
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