Daniel Jones is so much more than Eli Manning 2.0

Daniel Jones and Eli Manning Robert Sabo, Anthony J. CausiThis was the first day of the rest of his NFL life, and the first day the quarterback who has been wearing No. 10 with such pride and professionalism across 15 seasons for the New York Football Giants undoubtedly could hear the footsteps, however distant they may be, of the young man who was wearing the red No. 8 outside 1925 Giants Drive.

The legends of the fall all become fall guys, and whenever his awkward day of reckoning arrives, Eli Manning will at least be able to take a tiny measure of solace in the knowledge he will one day be passing the torch to someone who has all the respect and admiration in the world for him, to someone…