Mild to wild: Daniel Jones suddenly looks like a very dangerous quarterback

Before this season, the New York Giants QB was best known for tripping over his own feet. Now he is a formidable dual threat.

DANNY DIMES: Daniel Jones and head coach Brian Daboll of the New York Giants after defeating the Minnesota Vikings. Picture: Stephen Maturen/Getty Images

The NFL boasts quarterbacks with signature styles. There’s Patrick Mahomes and his bag of tricks. Joe Burrow oozing with confidence on the field while donning fur and smoking stogies off it. Lamar Jackson, the ultimate offensive threat. Then there’s Daniel Jones who doesn’t look like anything remarkable, has almost no swagger, and prior to this season was best known as the guy who tripped over himself on an 80-yard run during the 2020 season.

That was then. This is now. Jones showed glimpses of his talent before Brian Daboll arrived as head coach of the New York Giants. With limited offensive help, Jones put up 400 yards and shepherded a comeback win over the Saints in 2021, he’s dominated Washington, and that run in which he stumbled over himself … it had a top speed of 21.23mph, one of the fastest for any quarterback in history. But Jones also made a number of mistakes and collected too many losses in his first few years in New York. The Giants declined Jones’s fifth-year option, and his future had been talkshow fodder in the Big Apple.