After meeting with the media in the downstairs auditorium at the Quest Diagnostics Training Center, Schoen and coach Brian Daboll returned upstairs to the Draft Room for the rest of the first round. As the picks got into the 20s, they started to work the phones.
Eventually, they struck a deal with the Texans at No. 25, which the Giants then used on quarterback Jaxson Dart. In exchange for the pick that landed them Ole Miss’ all-time leader in passing yards – a record previously held by Eli Manning – the Giants sent their 34th and 99th overall picks in this year’s draft and a 2026 third-round choice to Houston.
The Giants, who started the night with eight overall selections, have five remaining to use over the next two days – No. 65 (Round 3), No. 105 (Round 4), No. 154 (Round 5), No. 219 (Round 7) and No. 246 (Round 7).
“Glad you all didn’t go home,” Schoen said when the media reassembled after the selection of Dart. “Obviously we traded back (into the first round) for Jaxson. Fired up to get him. We went through an extensive quarterback process. It started as far back as last May in terms of evaluating the quarterbacks, and Dabs and I have been through this quite a few times, and at the end of the day we’re fired up to have Jaxson Dart as part of the organization and look forward to working with him.”
“I think he’s got a lot of qualities you look for in a good quarterback,” Daboll said. “He’s tough, makes good decisions with the football, pushes the ball down the field, has athletic ability, played in a really tough conference, started there at USC as a young guy. But did a really good job throughout this process of our meetings, board work, workouts and the tape that we liked. Look forward to working with him. Glad he’s here, and we’ll get started as soon as we can.”
A lot of teams decided to stand pat and pick, according to Schoen, as the draft entered the final 10 spots of the first round.
“There’s just not much you can do there,” Schoen said. “We kept chipping away, have a lot of good relationships with general managers around the league, so easy conversations. The teams that weren’t going to move back were up front and pretty straightforward right off the bat, so that allowed us to get ahead of the next team and start working through potential trades.”
The Giants ended the first night with players at not one but two positions they felt comfortable with before the draft. Schoen’s goal is always…
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