The New York Giants have benched starting quarterback Eli Manning for the second time in his career, and named rookie sixth overall pick Daniel Jones the new starter.
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Over the last six seasons, Manning had a record of 38-57 in 95 starts, and was one-and-done in a blowout loss the one year during that span in which the Giants made the playoffs. In two games in 2019, Manning went 0-2, bringing his career record to 116-116. He'll avoid a career losing record, for now.
Manning was never a great quarterback, but at one time he was at least a top-half-of-the-league starter, with two improbable Super Bowl runs under his belt. However, in recent years, he has indisputably been bad starting quarterback.
Over that same six-year span noted above, 36 quarterbacks had at least 1,000 passing attempts. Here's where he ranks in some basic stats among that group:
| Eli Manning | Stat | Rank |
| Completion percentage | 62.4% | 24 |
| TD percentage | 4.2 | 26 |
| INT percentage | 2.7 | 32 |
| QB rating | 85.9 | 30 |
| Yards per attempt | 6.96 | 30 |
The stats aside, it was pretty easy to see on the eye test that Manning is cooked.
Still, this offseason, the Giants had an opportunity to release Manning and save $17,000,000. Instead, they kept him on the roster, and he'll count for $23,200,000 on their cap, now as a backup.
Enter Daniel Jones, a player the Giants were roundly criticized for drafting with the sixth overall pick in this year's draft. Jones had a great preseason, and clearly looked like a better player than Manning. Still, the Giants went through the charade of playing Manning for two weeks, and they're now 0-2, not that they were going anywhere this year anyway.
Jones gives Giants fans a reason to watch. His first opponent will be the Buccaneers, on the road in Tampa this Sunday.
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