Eli Manning is the present. The anticipation is Davis Webb will be the future.
Where does that leave Geno Smith, who at 26 is too old to be the new kid on the block and too young to be an afterthought?
It leaves him in a sort of quarterback limbo, looking to resurrect an NFL career that languished with the Jets and is far from secure with the Giants.
Not long after Smith signed a one-year deal in late March — the Giants guaranteed Smith $100,000 of his $775,000 base salary — Ben McAdoo said it was not out of the question he eventually could be Manning’s successor.