[Murphy] Daniel Jones contract, explained: How Giants can get out of four-year, big-money deal with franchise QB
September 30, 2024
[Murphy] Daniel Jones contract, explained: How Giants can get out of four-year, big-money deal with franchise QB
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>**Daniel Jones contract details**
>On the eve of free agency in 2023, the Giants and Jones agreed to a massive four-year, $160 million contract.
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>The No. 1 issue with the Giants trying to move on from Jones is that the team signed him to a four-year, $160 million contract on the eve of free agency in 2023. The terms of that deal will make it hard for the Giants to trade him without taking on an immense cap hit
>**Daniel Jones 2024 salary**
>Jones makes a base salary of $35.5 million in the 2024 season. It takes up roughly 18.7 percent of the league cap for the Giants.
>How Giants can get out of Daniel Jones contract
>There was talk about the Giants moving on from Jones after the 2023 season, however, the fully guaranteed $35.5 million base salary complicated things. Not only would it cost the Giants to release him while still paying him, but no other team was interested in taking on that kind of money through a trade.
>Now, the earliest is likely ahead of the 2025 season. New York can get out of Jones’ contract before the fifth day of the 2025 league year when $12 million of Jones’ $30 million 2025 base salary is fully guaranteed. That can be done either by cutting him or potentially trading him if there is a suitor interested, which seems unlikely.
>The Giants will have $33.315 million of dead money — a salary cap charge for a player no longer on a team’s roster — by parting ways with Jones after the 2024 season. New York would save $8.29 million in cap space due to Jones’ 2025 cap number being at $41.605 million, an increase from 2024.
Yeah as long as he’s healthy this is the last year
Wasn’t this always the plan? Dimes got essentially a 2-year deal with some funny money at the end. Giants cut him with some dead cap but it’s not crippling
Yes, I figure at some point this season, when the Giants are officially out of the playoff hunt, they will bench Jones to keep that injury guarantee from kicking in…
We’re gonna end up signing Sam Darnold to a massive overpay contract as a bridge until Manning and he’s going to crash and burn I can sense it.
BY LOCKING HIS ASS IN THE JAIL CELL IN METLIFE AND NOT LETTING HIM OUT UNTIL JANUARY.
Sorry, bro. But we need you alive.
They’re gonna kill him. There, saved you a click.
I don’t blame DJ, I blame Joe Shoen for everything. DJ is just a decent backup QB, we need a franchise QB.
Who are they getting to replace him? Top 15 QB’s are not exactly a dime a dozen in the NFL.
Is it DJ or the Giants. I’m ready for him to go but seeing Mayfield, Carr, Darnold (Darnold was bad on the Jets though) and other QBs leave systems to move on and be successful in others had me thinking. Like if DJ landed somewhere that had multiple offensive weapons, and a solid defense, would he be able to perform? Put him on a healthy 49ers team, how does he do??
I knew it tank for Arch! Mara is way smarter than we thought…
As soon as we get to 10 losses they will bench DJ, daboll needs to show a litany of evidence to ownership that he’s the reason behind the losing, a 2 or 3 win season will look bad and he needs a scapegoat to make Mara give him a chance at finding a QB
Or he could throw the football like a pro QB and we could stop having this conversation.
I think the problem is that he’s a smart guy and he’s thinking too much. We need a dumb QB who’s only football smart. Eli had Ricky Bobby energy, we need a stupid cowboy.
Better off drafting a QB next year and having him sit for a year. Sign a veteran for a year or keep DJ and cut him after next year
I rather get out of the coach and GM contracts too when Jones leaves and becomes a practice squad QB for another team.
16 comments
>**Daniel Jones contract details**
>On the eve of free agency in 2023, the Giants and Jones agreed to a massive four-year, $160 million contract.
>
>The No. 1 issue with the Giants trying to move on from Jones is that the team signed him to a four-year, $160 million contract on the eve of free agency in 2023. The terms of that deal will make it hard for the Giants to trade him without taking on an immense cap hit
>**Daniel Jones 2024 salary**
>Jones makes a base salary of $35.5 million in the 2024 season. It takes up roughly 18.7 percent of the league cap for the Giants.
>How Giants can get out of Daniel Jones contract
>There was talk about the Giants moving on from Jones after the 2023 season, however, the fully guaranteed $35.5 million base salary complicated things. Not only would it cost the Giants to release him while still paying him, but no other team was interested in taking on that kind of money through a trade.
>Now, the earliest is likely ahead of the 2025 season. New York can get out of Jones’ contract before the fifth day of the 2025 league year when $12 million of Jones’ $30 million 2025 base salary is fully guaranteed. That can be done either by cutting him or potentially trading him if there is a suitor interested, which seems unlikely.
>The Giants will have $33.315 million of dead money — a salary cap charge for a player no longer on a team’s roster — by parting ways with Jones after the 2024 season. New York would save $8.29 million in cap space due to Jones’ 2025 cap number being at $41.605 million, an increase from 2024.
Yeah as long as he’s healthy this is the last year
Wasn’t this always the plan? Dimes got essentially a 2-year deal with some funny money at the end. Giants cut him with some dead cap but it’s not crippling
Yes, I figure at some point this season, when the Giants are officially out of the playoff hunt, they will bench Jones to keep that injury guarantee from kicking in…
We’re gonna end up signing Sam Darnold to a massive overpay contract as a bridge until Manning and he’s going to crash and burn I can sense it.
BY LOCKING HIS ASS IN THE JAIL CELL IN METLIFE AND NOT LETTING HIM OUT UNTIL JANUARY.
Sorry, bro. But we need you alive.
They’re gonna kill him. There, saved you a click.
I don’t blame DJ, I blame Joe Shoen for everything. DJ is just a decent backup QB, we need a franchise QB.
Who are they getting to replace him? Top 15 QB’s are not exactly a dime a dozen in the NFL.
Is it DJ or the Giants. I’m ready for him to go but seeing Mayfield, Carr, Darnold (Darnold was bad on the Jets though) and other QBs leave systems to move on and be successful in others had me thinking. Like if DJ landed somewhere that had multiple offensive weapons, and a solid defense, would he be able to perform? Put him on a healthy 49ers team, how does he do??
I knew it tank for Arch! Mara is way smarter than we thought…
As soon as we get to 10 losses they will bench DJ, daboll needs to show a litany of evidence to ownership that he’s the reason behind the losing, a 2 or 3 win season will look bad and he needs a scapegoat to make Mara give him a chance at finding a QB
Or he could throw the football like a pro QB and we could stop having this conversation.
I think the problem is that he’s a smart guy and he’s thinking too much. We need a dumb QB who’s only football smart. Eli had Ricky Bobby energy, we need a stupid cowboy.
Better off drafting a QB next year and having him sit for a year. Sign a veteran for a year or keep DJ and cut him after next year
I rather get out of the coach and GM contracts too when Jones leaves and becomes a practice squad QB for another team.