The longest play on the Giants’ first touchdown drive on Sunday involved Daniel Jones and a leaping, one-handed reception.
Jones, the Giants’ quarterback, did not throw the ball. He caught it.
And as he caught it, cradling the high pass near the Carolina sideline, he was hit. Hard. Coming from the left, Panthers safety Sean Chandler smacked Jones’s helmet — accidentally, it appeared — with his own. Jones’s helmet slammed against the turf.
He got right up.
But two weeks ago, Jones didn’t. He sustained a concussion in a brutal helmet-to-helmet collision during the Giants’ loss at Dallas.