If the New York Giants don’t commerce up into the highest three picks of the 2024 NFL draft, they’ll probably miss out on Caleb Williams, Drake Maye, and Jayden Daniels.
Within the minds of many, that’s completely high-quality as a result of Michigan’s J.J. McCarthy will nonetheless be accessible for the taking in some unspecified time in the future from No. 4 by means of No. 6.
Nevertheless, former NFL offensive lineman and present analyst, Brian Baldinger, doesn’t subscribe to that principle. The truth is, he warns, the Giants ought to keep away from McCarthy totally.
“I might not go after J.J. McCarthy. He may develop into an ideal professional. He’s only a very troublesome man to judge due to the place he comes from,” Baldinger instructed the New York Publish. “He’s the one quarterback I can keep in mind in latest historical past the place no person says something unfavorable about him. They only say, ‘He’s 27-1, Jim Harbaugh says he’s one of the best quarterback within the draft.’
“No person says something concerning the offense he performed in, not throw the ball within the second half in opposition to Penn State, they don’t convey any of that up. They’re similar to, ‘Yep, he was a five-star recruit in highschool, he took Michigan to a nationwide championship, back-to-back playoff seasons.’ Like he’s the Golden Baby. No person ever says something dangerous about him. And I can’t determine what there may be to judge with him. They requested little or no of him to go win a nationwide championship.”
If each McCarthy and vast receiver Rome Odunze can be found at six, Baldinger believes the Giants ought to go along with Odzune. They most definitely shouldn’t commerce up for McCarthy, he provides.
“I like him, I don’t know that I like him. I can’t see what number of off-platform throws he makes, or how inventive he’s when, I don’t know, Aidan Hutchinson’s able to swallow him up,” Baldinger mentioned. “You simply don’t see that many conditions that NFL quarterbacks need to react to in actual time, whether or not to make the throw as you get blasted, or to get out of hurt’s approach like (Patrick) Mahomes does weekly a few instances each sport. Or Josh Allen simply uncorks a bomb to go win a sport.
“You simply don’t see these kind of throws from him. If I used to be Joe Schoen, I wouldn’t commerce up, lose belongings that they desperately want, which may develop into a franchise quarterback, however you’re very unsure if he’ll.”
Baldinger isn’t alone in his skepticism of McCarthy. Former Giants nice Tiki Barber expressed related considerations this week.
Tiki would not need the Giants to take J.J. McCarthy: pic.twitter.com/HYUGyxhdLd
— WFAN Sports activities Radio (@WFAN660) April 11, 2024
“Cease with the J.J. McCarthy factor,” Barber mentioned. “His movie doesn’t say he’s a first-round quarterback. His movie doesn’t say ‘I must do away with all my belongings and draft this man’ as a result of quite a lot of what he does doesn’t translate.”
We’ll quickly discover out if normal supervisor Joe Schoen shares related beliefs.