Giants will not 'force' quarterback with No 3 selection amid Shedeur Sanders rumors, GM says

The New York Giants are successful hunt of a franchise quarterback, but that solution whitethorn not travel successful the 2025 NFL Draft. 

The Giants signed some Russell Wilson and Jameis Winston this offseason, but neither was handed semipermanent contract. Wilson signed for 1 twelvemonth and Winston for two. 

Giants wide manager Joe Schoen said that with Wilson and Winston, the squad is not going to "force" a backmost enactment with the No. 3 wide prime successful adjacent week’s NFL Draft. 

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New York Giants wide manager Joe Schoen astatine the NFL Scouting Combine astatine the Indiana Convention Center connected Feb. 25, 2025. (Kirby Lee-Imagn Images)

"With the signing of those 2 players, I deliberation we enactment ourselves successful a presumption wherever I don’t deliberation that’s mandatory oregon thing that we person our feet astatine the occurrence and we person to do," Schoen told reporters connected Wednesday astir selecting a backmost successful the draft. 

"The 2 guys we signed person played a batch of ball, they’ve got a batch of skins connected the partition and I bash deliberation we’ve upgraded that country compared to wherever it was a twelvemonth ago. Tommy (Devito's) inactive successful determination and he’s won games for america excessively and he’s inactive developing. We’re blessed with the constitution of the country close now."

The Tennessee Titans look enamored with Miami backmost Cam Ward, and the anticipation is that the Titans volition prime Ward with the No. 1 wide pick.

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Colorado backmost Shedeur Sanders speaks during a property league astatine the NFL shot scouting harvester connected Feb. 28, 2025, successful Indianapolis. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)

If the Titans bash so draught Ward, the Cleveland Browns volition person a prime betwixt Heisman Trophy victor Travis Hunter, Penn State prima Abdul Carter and Colorado backmost Shedeur Sanders.

If the Browns don’t prime Sanders, and helium remains connected the committee for the Giants, Schoen said the worth has to lucifer up for the Giants to instrumentality the Colorado quarterback.

"If the worth matches up with what we person connected a player, there’s an accidental to instrumentality immoderate position. Not gonna unit it if it’s not the close value. If the committee lines up and we’re connected the timepiece and that’s the presumption we privation to spell with, we’ll spell with it," Schoen said.

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Buffaloes backmost Shedeur Sanders astatine the University of Colorado NFL Showcase connected April 4, 2025, successful Boulder. (Michael Ciaglo-Imagn Images)

The Giants person done extended enactment connected a clump of quarterbacks, arsenic they are acceptable to big Sanders, Alabama’s Jalen Milroe and Louisville’s Tyler Shough for backstage workouts, per FOX Sports.

If they opt not to instrumentality Sanders with the No. 3 wide pick, the Giants could inactive prime a backmost with 1 of their mid-round picks, notably with the No. 34 wide prime astatine the apical of the 2nd round.  

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