This QB prospect has reportedly 'made a strong impression on the' Giants ahead of 2025 draft

Multiple recent reports have suggested the New York Giants will take Penn State pass-rusher Abdul Carter and not Colorado quarterback Shedeur Sanders with the third overall pick of the 2025 NFL Draft.

This is in part because people within the Giants are allegedly split on whether or not the club should draft Sanders this week. 

On Monday, ESPN's Jordan Raanan indicated that the Giants could target Alabama signal-caller Jalen Milroe as early as during the first round of the player-selection process on Thursday night. 

"Milroe has made a strong impression on the Giants, according to a source. He could be in play if they move back into the first round or on Day 2," Raanan said. 

While former NFL quarterback and current analyst Dan Orlovsky thinks landing with the Giants "would be the ideal situation" for Milroe, Big Blue may have to leapfrog the Cleveland Browns in the draft order to prevent Cleveland from making the prospect the first pick of the second round. ESPN's Jordan Reid is among those who think the Browns would take Milroe at selection No. 33. Milroe played under Cleveland offensive coordinator Tommy Rees at Alabama.

For a different article published on Monday, an unnamed NFL passing game coordinator and a scouting director told The Athletic's Bruce Feldman that "it’s gonna take a lot of work" for a club to turn a "project" such as Milroe into a legitimate NFL starter. The Giants ideally would start Russell Wilson and/or Jameis Winston over Milroe for at least a majority of the 2025 season, and it seems that Milroe would welcome working with Giants head coach Brian Daboll as a rookie. 

"If you love football, you're going to love being a part of that organization, especially offensively," Milroe recently told Raanan about meetings he had with the Giants during the predraft process. "And they were able to grasp that with me communicating with them, hearing my thought process and how I view X's and O's and how I comprehend things. It's all about the comprehending of their playbook and understanding their philosophies on offense. Everybody's philosophy is different on offense, but it's more how they view their system of offense. It's big with understanding them and how they understand football in the lens that they do."

Daboll previously helped Josh Allen of the Buffalo Bills become a quarterback capable of winning Most Valuable Player Awards. Milroe is more of an unfinished product than was Allen back in 2018, but that's why Milroe should want to end up with a team that can let him focus on improving his passing mechanics later this year before he's asked to start a meaningful game versus a live defense in 2026.