FOXBOROUGH — Mac Jones first impressed Joe Judge last summer when Judge brought the Giants to Gillette Stadium for joint practices.
Those workouts were some of Jones’s best efforts of training camp, and with incumbent Patriots starter Cam Newton out because of COVID protocol violations, it’s when the rookie distanced himself in the quarterback competition.
“I think the thing that stuck out about him last year to me was his presence and how he competed; those are the two big things right there that I really took away,” Judge said Monday.