The challenge facing Daniel Jones now that Eli Manning is gone

Daniel Jones can’t be anyone other than Daniel Jones. It is unfair to ask him to be Eli Manning.

Except that is who he was drafted to be.

The Giants drafted him to be The Next Eli Manning.

There will never be another Eli Manning, a living anachronism in a Twitter-Instagram world gone mad, a Hall of Fame quarterback and Hall of Fame gentleman revered universally over the course of his 16-year career by teammates and coaches and everyone whose life he touched in and around 1925 Giants Way.

Jones was drafted with the sixth pick of the 2019 NFL Draft not only because he has the dual-threat skills required in today’s NFL, but because it was determined by GM Dave Gettleman that he had the makeup…