“He had a lot of sponsors throughout the league. People thought he was going to be a good player,” said Daniel Jeremiah, a former NFL scout and current analyst with NFL Network. “Teams said he’s got a lot of ability and thought he got unfairly beat up through the process.”
”I got that sense as well,” added former NFL quarterback Jim Miller, host of ‘Movin’ the Chains’ on SiriusXM NFL Radio. “In terms of league coaches and GMs around the NFL, they liked Daniel Jones every bit as much as the Giants did.” ...
It’s impossible to know for sure whether that would have happened.