Should New York Giants trade for Detroit Lions QB Hendon Hooker?

The New York Giants didn’t land their quarterback of selection this spring — North Carolina’s Drake Maye — and can proceed on with Daniel Jones as their major sign caller.

Does that imply the Giants are carried out searching for their quarterback of the long run? For now, possibly. Jones is below contract for 3 extra seasons and the workforce has introduced in Drew Lock on a one-year deal. The long-term view remains to be very cloudy.

There may be one other avenue apart from the draft and free company to accumulate gamers. That might be by means of a commerce. The Giants might very properly scour the league rosters for a participant that they really feel can turn out to be a franchise quarterback.

One risk is Hendon Hooker, a 26-year-old who is barely in his second season with the Detroit Lions. Hooker was as soon as considered a doable take-out for starter Jared Goff however that turned impossible when the Lions inked Goff to a four-year, $212 million deal final week.

Justin Melo of The Draft Network recognized the Giants as one of many three groups (the Los Angeles Rams and Tampa Bay Buccaneers being the others) who might/ought to make a play for Hooker.

The Giants handed on alternatives to draft J.J. McCarthy, Bo Nix, or Michael Penix Jr. within the first spherical of the 2024 NFL Draft regardless of dealing with questions over Daniel Jones’ future. Jones’ 2023 season failed to fulfill expectations after he signed a four-year, $160 million extension final offseason.

Jones has no assured cash remaining on his contract following the conclusion of this season, however an damage assure can be triggered for 2025 if Jones will get damage and may’t cross a bodily. We’ve seen related conditions result in benchings across the league (Russell Wilson in Denver, Derek Carr in Vegas). It’s exactly why the Giants added Drew Lock earlier this offseason. Hooker might give the Giants an alternate possibility with the next ceiling.

Now comes the query of how a lot the Lions would ask in return for the previous Tennessee star. We all know the Giants had “genuine interest” in Hooker in final 12 months’s draft however had been aced out by the Lions within the third spherical.

They’ll rekindle that curiosity this summer season as groups wrestle to get below the wage cap.