Giants owner John Mara gives green light to draft quarterback - ESPN

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Even though they signed Daniel Jones to a $160 million deal last year, New York Giants general manager Joe Schoen and coach Brian Daboll have the green light from ownership to draft a quarterback, if they so desire.

The Giants currently hold the sixth pick in an especially strong quarterback draft.

«If they fall in love with a quarterback and believe that it's worth pick No. 6 or moving up, I certainly would support that,» owner John Mara said Monday at the NFL owners meetings.

Schoen has already made it known that the team is at the very least looking at quarterbacks with the high pick and Jones coming off a season with two serious injuries. He's currently rehabbing a torn ACL. The Giants have already had Michigan's J.J. McCarthy and North Carolina's Drake Maye in for visits. Schoen was at Caleb Williams' pro day last week at USC along with director of player personnel Tim McDonnell. Meanwhile, assistant general manager Brandon Brown and quarterbacks coach Shea Tierney were at McCarthy's pro day in Ann Arbor.

«I know they're looking at the quarterbacks. You've seen that,» Mara said. «They've gone to some of the pro day, we've had some of those guys in. I don't think they're even close to making a final determination yet as to which way we're going to go on that. Those discussions will happen over the next few weeks.»

Mara said he's been told by the front office that it's the «most talented group [of quarterbacks] to come out in years.»

No matter how it plays out, the expectation remains that Jones will be the Giants' Week 1 starter, assuming he's healthy. Schoen said Monday that Jones had begun running on land and there had been no setbacks.

Mara was adamant that he still believed in Jones. The