NY Post · May 20, 2019
Eli Manning knows the threat he’s now dealing with
Daniel Jones and Eli ManningIt happens so many places with so many different athletes. There is an older veteran holding onto his job and a rookie hot shot coming in to take it. There will be an inevitable changing of the guard. The question is when.
Eli Manning knows this. He is the starting quarterback for the Giants, going into his 16th season, yet, for the first time, he is sharing a room with his successor. Daniel Jones, taken with the No. 6 pick in the NFL draft, is in the building. Not everything is different now for Manning, but he knows much is not the same.
The Giants did not select Jones to light a fire under Manning. They took Jones, 21, to eventually replace Manning, 38.
