{"id":224619,"date":"2025-03-26T08:46:43","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T12:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/?p=224619"},"modified":"2025-03-26T08:46:43","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T12:46:43","slug":"how-russell-wilson-will-impact-the-new-look-giants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2025\/03\/26\/how-russell-wilson-will-impact-the-new-look-giants\/","title":{"rendered":"How Russell Wilson will Impact the New Look Giants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Super Bowl-winning quarterback <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2025\/03\/25\/russell-wilson-super-bowl-winning-quarterback-signs-contract-new-york-giants\/\" target=\"_self\">Russell Wilson<\/a>\u00a0has joined the New York Giants on a 1-year deal worth up to $21 million, with $10.5 million guaranteed. This is coming after an off-season where names such as <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2025\/03\/23\/aaron-rodgers-free-agency-team-fits\/\" target=\"_self\">Aaron Rodgers<\/a>, Joe Flacco, and multiple rookies were predicted to be wearing blue in 2025-26.<\/p>\n<h2>What Impact Will Russell Wilson Have on the New York Giants?<\/h2>\n<p>Mr. Unlimited. Finally, the wait is over. The Giants have found their quarterback, and life looks a lot less blue for Giants fans today.<\/p>\n<p>Wilson, entering his 14th season, will be 37 years old in November. It feels like this may be his final stop and where he will end his career, but the 10-time Pro Bowler still has a lot left in the tank. Last season for the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/category\/nfl-teams\/steelers\/\" target=\"_self\">Pittsburgh Steelers<\/a>, he had a career resurgence of sorts. Coming off an injury, he threw for <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/W\/WilsRu00.htm\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2,500 yards, 16 touchdowns, and five interceptions while starting 11 games.<\/a> Helping take the Steelers to the playoffs, he got his career back on track after an abysmal two seasons with the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/category\/nfl-teams\/broncos\/\" target=\"_self\">Denver Broncos<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Two QB1&#8217;s?<\/h3>\n<p>Now that Wilson is a Giant, what does this mean for <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2025\/03\/24\/jameis-winston-joins-the-giants-the-good-and-the-bad\/\" target=\"_self\">Jameis Winston<\/a>?<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Giants current QB room: <a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6o1gNqjr1L\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/6o1gNqjr1L<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AdamSchefter\/status\/1904686341167644793?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 26, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Unless Wilson was guaranteed the starting job at the moment of signing, a competition may be in order this off-season to see who gets it come Week 1. Both players are talented and will certainly be ready to fight for the starting role.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless of who gets the job, this is the best the Giants&#8217; quarterback room has looked in a long time. Prior to the last two weeks, they haven&#8217;t had a truly competent player at the quarterback position in years. Now, all of a sudden, they don&#8217;t have just one but two players capable of truly being relied on.<\/p>\n<p>The only question now is, what do they do with the third overall pick?<\/p>\n<h3>Choices at the Draft<\/h3>\n<p>Now that the Giants have their quarterback room shored up for at least this season, the options become wide open for them on April 24.<\/p>\n<p>What before seemed like a sure-fire pick at quarterback, and even a possible trade up to get the guy they want, can now but a very different conversation. Can the Giants still go quarterback? Sure, but now that Wilson is a Giant, they can go with the best player available.<\/p>\n<p>This draft does not have the generational blue-chip prospect at quarterback like others do. Sure, players like <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2025\/03\/25\/making-the-case-for-cam-ward-to-the-giants\/\" target=\"_self\">Cam Ward<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2024\/07\/17\/2025-nfl-draft-shedeur-sanders-scouting-report\/\" target=\"_self\">Shedeur Sanders<\/a> are talented, but the truth is they would not be mocked at the top of the draft if not for the position they play. They have now given themselves a chance to go after the true blue-chip prospects.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2025\/03\/17\/2025-nfl-draft-scouting-report-travis-hunter-colorado\/\" target=\"_self\">Travis Hunter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2025\/02\/17\/2025-nfl-draft-scouting-report-abdul-carter-penn-state\/\" target=\"_self\">Abdul Carter<\/a> are names to watch. Hunter is the definition of a Swiss army knife who can play both sides of the field. At corner and receiver he&#8217;s shown throughout his college career that he can make plays all over the field. There&#8217;s never been anyone like him, and that is enough reason to take a chance on such a unique prospect.<\/p>\n<p>Carter is a game-wrecker at the edge. The former Nittany Lion took the jump last season, posting his best year yet with <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.sports-reference.com\/cfb\/players\/abdul-carter-1.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">12 sacks and 24 tackles for loss<\/a>. He&#8217;s going to be a terror for offensive lines for the next decades in the NFL, and it would be hard for the Giants to pass up an opportunity to draft him.<\/p>\n<h3>Can the Giants Compete?<\/h3>\n<p>Now that the Giants have brought in Wilson, the pressure is going to be on to compete for the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>Although it&#8217;s going to be quite the uphill battle, anything is possible in the NFL. The Giants are a talented team with superstar players all over the field. They are not a three-win team with a competent quarterback under center. Now that Wilson is a Giant, that&#8217;s exactly what they&#8217;re going to get.<\/p>\n<p>Will they be competitive? Yes.<\/p>\n<p>But will they make the playoffs? That is to be determined. Luckily, we have 17 weeks of football to find out!<\/p>\n<p><em>Main Photo: Kirby Lee &#8211; Imagn Images<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a lenghty off-season where the New York Giants were in desperate need of a quarterback, they finally got their answers. First with Jameis Winston, and now Russell Wilson. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5484,"featured_media":224902,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20,54],"tags":[32992,116,237,32476],"class_list":["post-224619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-giants","category-editorials","tag-abdul-carter","tag-jameis-winston","tag-russell-wilson","tag-travis-hunter"],"modified_by":"David Latham, Managing Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5484"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224619"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224903,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224619\/revisions\/224903"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}