Pat Shurmur played center at Michigan State. He knows what good center play looks like, and the position’s importance to an offense.
Thus, the way the Giants handled the center position in 2018 was a tad curious. They never gave Brett Jones, the player who entered last spring figuring to be the starter, a chance. They eventually traded him to the Minnesota Vikings.
Instead, the Giants virtually handed the job to a journeyman backup who spent years fighting just to get into the league and had never actually played center in a game prior to last season.