After selecting Saquon Barkley with the second pick Thursday night and skipping over every quarterback in the draft except for Baker Mayfield, who went first overall, Dave Gettleman was asked the obvious question.
“What’s the long-term plan with the quarterback?” Gettleman said, repeating the query as if it were the most outlandish thing he’d ever heard. “He’s gonna play.”
The he is Eli Manning, now firmly entrenched as the quarterback of the team for the foreseeable future.
“What do you want me to tell you?” Gettleman said. “He’s our quarterback, we believe in him. He threw the hell out of the ball for three days [in the voluntary minicamp that ended Thursday].