Former Giants quarterback Daniel Jones continues to be getting his toes week on the Vikings’ follow squad. He has the most effective of each worlds, staying within the sport as a member of a staff whereas obtainable to signal with one other staff’s 53-man roster, ought to the necessity come up.
The purpose for now could be to get him up to the mark.
“He’s a proficient man,” coach Kevin O’Connell informed reporters on Friday, through Kevin Seifert of ESPN.com, “large, robust, and throws it rather well. . . . We’ve simply challenged him to soak up all the knowledge and utilizing that as a barometer of the place we need to take our educating transferring ahead as we systematically construct him up, and he’s very sensible.”
O’Connell added that it’s useful to have Jones’s perspective, after so many weeks of the present construction.
“He appears to be like like a man, when he throws a soccer, that’s performed lots of soccer and within the pocket, his really feel,” O’Connell mentioned. “So, it’s been enjoyable to have him right here. I feel he’s doing an excellent job. Little by little, getting extra snug with what we do round right here.”
One factor they should do is have a veteran able to go in 2025, if/when Sam Darnold parlays an unexpectedly robust 2024 season right into a beginning job elsewhere. Daniel Jones could possibly be subsequent 12 months’s Darnold, able to go if/when J.J. McCarthy isn’t.
