Giants legend Victor Cruz poses big Arch Manning question as franchise gets set for quarterback search

The Daniel Jones Era successful East Rutherford, New Jersey, has each but officially travel to an end, arsenic the New York Giants person benched their franchise backmost with the anticipation that they volition opt retired of his declaration pursuing what has been a tumultuous 2024 season. 

Head manager Brian Daboll confirmed the reports that Jones was moved to 3rd drawstring and Tommy DeVito, who has been successful that presumption each season, was vaulted to starting quarterback. DeVito won 3 games arsenic a starter past play with Jones and Tyrod Taylor some hurt. 

But DeVito apt isn't the aboriginal astatine backmost for the Giants, contempt being a instrumentality favorite. That leaves Daboll, wide manager Joe Schoen and the remainder of the enactment scrambling backmost into the warfare country to fig retired the age-old question for immoderate NFL team: Where tin we find a franchise quarterback?

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New York Giants backmost Daniel Jones watches during the 2nd fractional of an NFL shot crippled against the Carolina Panthers, Sunday, Nov. 10, 2024, successful Munich, Germany.  (AP Photo/Lennart Preiss)

There are a fewer schools of thought, but Giants fable Victor Cruz has different question that volition beryllium answered successful owed time. 

How severely bash the Giants privation Arch Manning – the nephew of the antheral who utilized to propulsion Cruz passes that led to his salsa touchdown celebrations, Eli Manning.

"Well, it’s interesting, right? I’ve already done this small intelligence heavy dive connected this," Cruz told Fox News Digital astir the Giants' backmost situation, portion besides discussing his concern with Captain Morgan. "So, the question is, if I’m a Giants GM, if I’m John Mara, if I’m those guys up top, bash I privation Arch Manning?"

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Arch is simply a sophomore successful the Texas Longhorns' shot program, but helium has yet to beryllium a starter with Quinn Ewers moving Steve Sarkisian's discourtesy the past 2 seasons, including 2024. 

However, the anticipation is Arch volition instrumentality his spot arsenic the adjacent large Manning successful the NFL astatine the backmost position, and he's already shown flashes of what helium tin bash this play erstwhile helium had to instrumentality implicit for an injured Ewers. 

So, portion immoderate Giants fans volition expect a rookie backmost to beryllium drafted with a precocious prime – the Giants presently ain the 4th wide prime if the play ended contiguous – Cruz thinks this is the question that needs to beryllium answered archetypal successful pursuit of the adjacent large Giants quarterback. 

Former New York Giant, Victor Cruz, interacts with the fans astatine MetLife Stadium, November 26, 2023. (IMAGN)

"Is it a happening wherever we person a stopgap year, wherever we conscionable draught talent, we draught guys, we physique our roster? And past the pursuing year, you got to bash everything you tin to get Arch Manning," helium detailed. "Trade up, commercialized down, commercialized left, commercialized right. You gotta fig retired however to get Arch Manning, if that’s what you want, due to the fact that he’s going to enactment butts successful the seats, he’s gonna person the Manning aura astir him, which evidently New York fans cognize and emotion precise well.

"Is it a stopgap year, and we spell get Arch, oregon is it Shedeur [Sanders] oregon is it Cam Ward, which I emotion some of those guys, and I wouldn’t beryllium huffy if those guys were wearing bluish adjacent play arsenic well?"

Sanders, the lad of Deion Sanders, has shined for the Colorado Buffaloes, portion Miami's Cam Ward consistently leads his squad to triumph adjacent successful the look of adversity, a prime Cruz likes to spot from a quarterback. 

Those 2 are expected to beryllium among the apical quarterbacks taken successful the 2025 Draft, portion Arch won't beryllium capable to state until the pursuing year. Ewers volition besides travel retired of Texas this year, making mode for Arch to beryllium the sole starter successful Austin, wherever galore judge his draught banal arsenic a precocious first-rounder volition beryllium cemented.

Arch Manning #16 of the Texas Longhorns scrambles successful the 3rd 4th against the Texas Tech Red Raiders astatine Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium connected November 24, 2023 successful Austin, Texas.  (Tim Warner/Getty Images)

"I deliberation he’s besides a baller," Cruz said of Arch. "I deliberation he’s faster than immoderate Manning we’ve seen frankincense far. We tin propulsion it, helium has that happening astir him, and I deliberation he’s a large player."

There's nary uncertainty the Giants' quarterbacks country volition beryllium vastly antithetic successful 2025, but the enactment indispensable fig retired what the close determination is successful presumption of filling it. Giving Arch the accidental to travel down his uncle's way would apt mean having different down play to unafraid a precocious draught pick, oregon trading distant a clump of different picks to determination up for the accidental to instrumentality him. 

And what's not to accidental Arch doesn't enactment for his elder play successful 2026, opting to travel retired for the 2027 Draft instead?

To counteract that possibility, bash the Giants simply usage the apical prime they're expected to person this twelvemonth to drawback a rookie quarterback, possibly bring successful a seasoned arsenic well, and anticipation they tin vie again successful 2025?

It's ne'er a thought immoderate squad wants to person heading into Week 12 of the season, but astatine 2-8 pursuing the bye week, and the valuation of Jones resulting successful his benching, the Giants person to beryllium reasoning astir what to bash adjacent adjacent with a fewer games near connected the slate. 

Victor Cruz believes the Giants person a large Arch Manning question to reply successful presumption of their backmost of the future. (IMAGN)

GETTING CREATIVE WITH CAPTAIN MORGAN

While Cruz is trying to answer the Giants’ backmost question, he’s besides excited astir his latest collaboration with Captain Morgan, specifically what helium and manner decorator KidSuper cooked up arsenic portion of the company’s "Follow the Captain" scavenger hunt. 

Cruz discussed however overmuch amusive helium had creating a crewneck sweater with KidSuper that pays homage to his trademark touchdown dance. 

"Our crewnecks are dropping with myself, Captain Morgan, KidSuper. [The crewnecks] decidedly embody my style, similar my swagger, got the small salsa emotion connected determination arsenic well," Cruz said. "I’m decidedly excited astir this one, not conscionable for radical to spell retired determination and spot it and deterioration it and acquisition it, but to conscionable beryllium portion of the crew. I deliberation getting this crewneck makes you portion of the squad, portion of the team. So, erstwhile you spot maine outside, and you’re rocking your crewneck, and I’m rocking mine, it conscionable brings it each unneurotic and brings that squad ambiance together."

Victor Cruz poses successful Captain Morgan crewneck sweater, which helium helped make successful collaboration with manner decorator KidSuper (Captain Morgan)

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The crewnecks are dropping connected KidSuper.com, but erstwhile they merchantability retired there, fans tin caput to FollowTheCaptain.com for a accidental to triumph merch, NFL tickets and overmuch much arsenic portion of the scavenger hunt. 

"Captain Morgan, they conscionable emotion adventure. They emotion scavenger hunts, they emotion doing things for their fans. Not conscionable making it casual for fans, but making it breathtaking and making it fun."

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