PAIN IN THE NECK
Jones likely to miss Sunday’s game; Glennon would get start
The Giants might be forced to turn to a new quarterback to go with their new offensive coordinator after the latest injury to Daniel Jones.
Jones is dealing with a strained neck that will restrict his practice movement and puts him in serious jeopardy of missing Sunday’s game against the Dolphins as well as additional games because his recovery timeline is week-to-week, sources told The Post. Mike Glennon is expected to start in place of Jones, who played through all of Sunday’s game against the Eagles after suffering the neck injury on the second play, NFL Network reported.
The Giants signed Jake Fromm off the Bills practice squad, sources confirmed. Since coach Joe Judge arrived, the Giants have carried only two quarterbacks on the 53man roster except in cases of injury, so Fromm’s addition Tuesday afternoon was the first sign of concern.
Jones missed two starts as a rookie (ankle), two starts last season (hamstring) and was knocked out of a game earlier this season with a concussion. The Giants are 2-2 when Jones is sidelined, with both Eli Manning in 2019 and Colt McCoy in 2020 splitting results.
Jones ran for a 5-yard gain on the second play Sunday and took highbody shots from two Eagles defenders as he slid. He ran the ball twice more on the possession.
So, 13 days after Jason Garrett was in Jones’ ear, the Giants will likely have Freddie Kitchens in his second game as the de facto offensive coordinator calling plays for Glennon. Durability issues for Jones — renowned for his toughness by coaches and teammates — has made backup quarterback a more significant job than it ever was during Manning’s 15-year career with zero injury-related missed starts.
Glennon is 6-21 in his career, including 0-5 during the Jaguars’ season-ending 15-game losing streak in 2020. He completed 16 of 25 passes for 196 yards with a touchdown and two interceptions (one returned for a touchdown) in relief of Jones during the Week 5 blowout loss to the Cowboys.
Fromm was a fifth-round pick of the Bills in 2020 who served as the team’s emergency COVID-19 quarterback-in-isolation during his rookie season. He hasn’t played in a regular-season game and was the fourth-stringer in Buffalo, behind starter Josh Allen, backup Mitch Trubisky and former Giants draft pick Davis Webb, who made his own regular-season debut last month when Trubisky was sidelined.
In the present, the Giants are at a disadvantage without Jones after winning three of their last five games to move into an eight-team logjam within one game of the final NFC playoff spot. Only one of their final six opponents is more than one game above .500.
For the future, it’s bad timing when the main objective for the season — finding out if Jones is a franchise quarterback before determining whether to guarantee his contractual fifth-year option at about $21.3 million, according to overthecap.com — remains an unanswered mystery.
Jones appeared to be turning a corner early in the season but is coming off his three lowest fullgame passing yardage totals of the season and old ball-security issues (six interceptions and two fumbles lost in the last six games) have resurfaced. Garrett took the fall for the offense’s middling production but then the Giants managed just 13 points (after averaging 18.9 under Garrett) in the first game with Kitchens-Jones duo.
For a scouting report on Fromm, the Giants could’ve turned to six other Georgia alums on the roster as well as a couple coaches who overlapped with his time leading the Bulldogs into the College Football Playoff championship game. He apologized last year after an old Tweet surfaced in which he wrote “only elite white people” should be able to purchase guns. Fromm is “very smart” and a “good teammate,” according to one player who shared the locker room.
➤ The Giants put cornerback Darnay Holmes, who had an interception Sunday and was playing well in the slot after an earlyseason benching, on injured reserve. He will miss at least three games with a rib injury.