Giants (finally) bench Daniel Jones

The Giants finally made the decision to bench Daniel Jones, this after watching their QB1 struggle through 10 weeks of the 2024 NFL season.

Sources: The #Giants are benching QB Daniel Jones, officially moving on from their starter.

Out of the bye week, with the team 2-8, Jones now heads to the bench in what the team has said would be a football decision. pic.twitter.com/NaiVruk6sq

— Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) November 18, 2024

The final straw came by way of an overtime loss to the Carolina Panthers in Week 10. Their bye week followed the international loss, and Brian Daboll and his staff opted to move a different direction for the remainder of the season.

Jones’ stats this season don’t show a significant drop in production compared to the rest of his career, but that kind of highlights the absurdity of the team paying him big money — and not paying Saquon Barkley as a result. Through 10 games, Jones has a 63.3 completion percentage for 2,070 yards and only eight touchdowns.

The Giants have found new and embarrassing ways to lose throughout the season. As that trend failed to improve as the weeks went on, the team is now handing the offense over to Tommy DeVito — this despite Drew Lock being listed as QB2 on the depth chart.

This should be good news for rookie WR Malik Nabers who has, perhaps even inadvertently, shaded Jones repeatedly since being drafted in the Spring. If nothing else, Jones has done little to elevate the Giants to having a functional offense, and ironically, without Barkley there to lean on, wasn’t able to have an offense that was multi-faceted.

The team clearly didn’t want to pull the plug on their $160 million QB too early, but they ended up letting it drag on long enough to essentially waste their 2024 season.