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Even if New York Giants wanted Justin Fields, they had no shot

Many pundits, fans, and interested parties were lobbying for the New York Giants to take a shot at acquiring Chicago Bears quarterback Justin Fields.

Fields was traded to the Pittsburgh Steelers this past weekend for a conditional sixth-round draft pick, prompting a social media onslaught of people questioning their team’s effort to acquire the former first-round pick.

The answer was revealed in an article by Jaclyn Hendricks of the New York Post on Monday morning.

Former Bears quarterback Justin Fields wanted Pittsburgh alone as his next NFL home.

Before the Bears traded Fields to the Steelers on Saturday, four NFL teams inquired about the 25-year-old quarterback, whose camp “asked for him not to be traded there” as he “wanted the Steelers,” NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport reported Sunday.

The four suitors were not specified.

Again, no one is sure if the Giants made an inquiry, which is a moot point since Fields appeared to want to play in Pittsburgh no matter what.

The Giants signed Drew Lock on March 14 to a one-year, $5 million free agent deal. One has to wonder if they rebuffed on an attempt to trade for Fields before they made that decision.

Fields will earn $1.6 million with the Steelers this year and will play behind Russell Wilson in training camp barring anything unforeseen.

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Bears should learn from Giants’ mistake with Daniel Jones

The New York Giants selected Duke quarterback Daniel Jones with the sixth overall pick in the 2019 NFL draft.

Five years and hundreds of millions of dollars later, they still don’t know if he’s their “guy.”

The Giants might outwardly state the oft-injured Jones, who has yet to post elite stats as a starter in this league, is their future at quarterback, but experts believe that the Giants should be moving on from Jones.

Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback Kurt Warner, who now works as a studio analyst for the NFL Network, used the Giants’ situation with Jones as an example of how the Chicago Bears should approach their upcoming decision with quarterback Justin Fields.

“When you get to the point we are at in this league with quarterbacks — what you have to pay them and what that means for your organization — you better know that he’s the guy,” Warner told a select group of reporters at the Super Bowl, via the New York Post. “That, to me, is where teams get in trouble.

“The Giants go give $40 million [per year] to Daniel Jones. He hasn’t shown us he’s that guy. We’ve seen glimpses, maybe. The Giants are still behind the 8-ball because he’s still not that guy. Maybe he will be, but he’s not right now — and they paid him.”

The Giants have no choice but to roster Jones this season as they don’t have an ‘out’ clause in his deal until 2025. But paying and playing Jones in 2024 should not affect their future plans at quarterback if they are simply waiting for his clock to run out.

Ironically, the Giants own the sixth pick in this year’s draft and could very well use that to select Jones’ successor.

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