Daniel Jones' health status unchanged, needs clearance on contact
Daniel Jones #8 of the Giants looks on from the bench during the second half against the Washington Commanders at MetLife Stadium on Sunday, Oct. 22, 2023. Credit: Jim McIsaac
A quarterback situation – whether it’s an injury issue or anything else – always takes center stage during a football season.
After missing the past two games, Giants quarterback Daniel Jones provided this assessment of his neck injury on Tuesday morning: “Doing everything I can to get back out there. Feeling good, just trying to do everything the doctors and trainers tell me to do. I’m feeling better.”
He added: “I’m able to do everything I need to do from a running, throwing, lifting standpoint,” he said. “It’s mostly a contact thing, like I’ve said. Proving that I can handle that.”
Jones spoke with Kay Adams on the Up & Adams show. Jones has offered a fairly similar sentiment about his injury on that forum for three weeks in a row.
With Tyrod Taylor at quarterback, the Giants lost in Week 6 to the Bills, 14-9, in Orchard Park, and won in Week 7 over the Commanders, 14-7, snapping a four-game losing streak.
Taylor has completed 53 of 80 passes this season, a 66.3 completion percentage, for 571 yards and two touchdowns without an interception, good for a QB rating of 95.4.
Before his injury, Jones had completed 104 of 151 passes, a 68.9 completion percentage, for 884 yards, two touchdowns and six interceptions. His QB rating is 71.7.
If Jones isn’t ready this week, Taylor would start again, against the Jets.
Kimberly Jones covers the Giants for Newsday, a beat she first worked in the early 2000s before joining the YES Network to cover the Yankees. She worked for the NFL Network for more than a decade and has been heard semi-regularly on WFAN.
