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Best Wild-Card Performances: Giants Might Have Their Franchise QB

Five NFL wild-card games are in the books (we still have Monday night’s Cowboys-Buccaneers matchup) and the best performances deserve to be recognized by our MMQB staff.

Here are this weekend’s standouts:

Gary Gramling: Abracadaniel, Franchise Quarterback, Giants. There was a long list of “is he worth another contract?” quarterbacks coming into the season, and only one of them emphatically answered in the affirmative. For whatever reason, Daniel Jones—who has drawn unwarranted cackles from the punditry since the day he was drafted—was still getting heat early this season despite, for instance, spending a Monday night conjuring time and space in the face of the Cowboys’ relentless pass rush and firing peas all over the field only to see them dropped by a collection of also-ran receivers.