For NFL front offices and general managers, this week is the official launch of the offseason process with both the East-West Shrine Bowl and the Senior Bowl on tap.
Free agency will be here in six weeks and the 2025 NFL draft six weeks after that. That may seem like a long time to work with, but it goes fast.
New York Giants general manager Joe Schoen, who has the No. 3 overall selection in the draft, was in Mobile, Alabama on Tuesday for the annual Reese’s Senior Bowl and, as always, told the media he was keeping his options open in the upcoming draft.
“We’re going to be open to anything,” Schoen said, via Giants.com. “We’re in a good position sitting at three with the players that are available. By process of elimination, we know we’re going to get a good player. Regardless of what happens the next couple of months, we know there’s going to be a really good player there.”
Over the weekend, Schoen was in Arlington, Texas, the site of this year’s East-West Shrine Bowl, and met with several of their year’s top quarterback prospects, most notably, Colorado’s Shedeur Sanders.
“He’s a great kid, he’s a great kid, a really good personality, football smart, his dad (Deion Sanders) is a football coach,” said Schoen. “It’s a little bit cliché, but he checks all the boxes of a (player with a) dad that is a football coach and the passion that he approaches the game with.
“It was good getting to meet him. He’s had a really good career at Colorado and obviously looking forward to getting to knowing all those guys in the rest of the process.”
The Giants also have approximately $53 million in available cap space to use in free agency this March, so Schoen has a lot of ammunition to turn his 3-14 club around.
