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Given their draft positions and the respective situations under center, it’s perfectly normal for the No. 2-picking Giants and the Jets at No. 6 to focus on a talent-rich quarterback crop.
Still, there’s no guarantee that either team grabs a gem from a first-round list that officially welcomed USC’s Sam Darnold and UCLA’s Josh Rosen this week.
With the Giants positioned to take one or the other, and the Jets making noises about Oklahoma’s Baker Mayfield, the Heisman Trophy winner who stands with fellow second-tier talents Lamar Jackson of Louisville and Josh Allen, the only sure thing is that if the teams don’t take one of those guys, the New York fans at AT&T Stadium in Dallas may just tear down the joint.