2019 NFL Draft: Implications of Kyler Murray going No. 1 overall

Following the surprising Odell Beckham trade, the Giants are now armed with a pair of first round picks. It’s been a curious offseason in New York, so it’s really anybody’s guess at this point what they choose to do with those picks.

Along with dealing Beckham, the Giants also traded Olivier Vernon and decided not to franchise tag defensive captain and Pro Bowl safety Landon Collins, who promptly signed a mega-deal with the division-rival Redskins.

It seemed like a done-deal for a while that the Giants were going to take a quarterback with this pick, particularly after passing on last year’s crop to instead draft Saquon Barkley with the No. 2 overall pick. Barkley is a hell of a player, but New York is still no closer to competing than they were when they first drafted him. They have to find their QB of the future.

Haskins would be a nice fit with the Giants because he would probably benefit from a pseudo-redshirt season in his rookie year. Eli Manning is likely to begin the season as the team’s starting quarterback in 2019, and Haskins could sit and learn before taking over the job officially in 2020, if not late in the 2019 season.

New York now owns the Browns pick at No. 17, so they could potentially pass on Haskins, instead grabbing an offensive lineman or an edge rusher here, and then hope to potentially land Missouri’s Drew Lock in the middle of the first round. That would be a gamble, though, with teams potentially exploring trade-up options to get in front of the Giants to land Lock.

If the Giants aren’t sold on Haskins or Lock, or any of the other quarterbacks on lower tiers, then they could punt the decision once again until 2020, where they could be in position to land Alabama’s Tua Tagovailoa or Oregon’s Justin Herbert. It’s hard to imagine New York not ending up with another high draft pick next year, regardless of what happens in this draft.