Could Cam Ward Save Giants From Mundanity?

In Pro Football Network’s latest mock draft, the Giants are fortunate enough to take the first quarterback off the board at no. 2 overall. They take Miami’s Cam Ward and, in doing so, pick the fan base’s consensus favorite prospect.

“2025 marks the first time since signing his contract that the Giants can move on without incurring an unmanageable cap liability,” Kent Lee Platte wrote. “2024 marks the clear end for Daniel Jones, as it’s indisputable that there’s nothing left to develop with him; the project is over, and they clearly didn’t pass the grade.

“Cameron Ward has five full seasons of college football starting experience at quarterback, never falling below 60% passing or below a 2:1 TD ratio, often performing much better in both. He’s been excelling during the 2025 season and is a huge part of Miami’s resurgence.”

Ward has some legitimately exciting traits as a passer. His arm talent transcends inconsistent mechanics, with elasticity and raw power that mitigate lower-body lapses. He might not have the 80-grade arm talent to make every throw on the football field, but Ward has more than enough juice to make any reasonable throw asked of him.

Throw in athleticism that makes him a factor out of structure – even if he’s not a gaudy scrambler – and New York has a creative passer with a track record of high-level play and production at the collegiate level.

Ward isn’t without his warts, but nobody in this class is the type of prospect that went in the top three a year ago. There’s a fumbling problem to address, along with some intangible inconsistencies and a tendency to forget about rushers that he’s evaded earlier in the play. That shouldn’t dismiss him as a first-round prospect, nor should it take him off the Giants’ board.

The reality of the quarterback situation is that no prospect can actually promise to pan out and take over as a legitimate face of the franchise. But at the very least, Ward’s profile projects as a fun passer, and after the Jones era ends in New York, fans will happily sign up for Sundays with a little more excitement.