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The Daniel Jones era in New York may be over, but there’s one Giants teammate who will surely miss him: Wide receiver Darius Slayton.
The two came into the NFL together as Giants via the 2019 NFL draft, Jones as a top-10 pick and Slayton as a fifth-round pick. The pair hit it off immediately, with Slayton becoming Jones’ favorite target.
In the duo’s first five seasons together, Slayton led the club in receiving in four of them, and he hasn’t forgotten the synergy and chemistry he had here with Jones.
The Giants, however, had just one winning season with Jones under center and made the decision ot part ways with him last November. Slayton is not about to lay all of the blame for the Giants’ woes at Jones’ feet. There’s plenty of blame to go around.
“It was definitely not an ideal situation,” Slayton said on the NFL Spotlight with Ari Meirov podcast, via Big Blue View. “At the end of the day, he knows what the business is. I know what this business is. It’s result-based. We weren’t good enough the previous few years on offense. Typically, the tip of that spear is the quarterback.”
Jones is now in Indianapolis and is in a battle for the starting job there with Anthony Richardson. Slayton believes Jones still has a chance to be a top player.
“I think that he will be a successful quarterback in the league,” Slayton told Meirov. “This league is largely about being in the right place at the right time.”
Jones not only had perforance issues to deal with as a Giant, he had to overcome muliple injuries. He missed a total of 22 games over his six seasons with the Giants with various injuries and ailments. The most serious of those were the season-ending ACL tear in 2023 and the two seperate neck injuries in whcih he pinched a nerve.
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