Giants quarterback conundrum begins with massive 2025 NFL draft questions

First in a three-part series on the Giants quarterback issue.Coming tomorrow: Examining Sam Darnold and other proven or semi-proven requests. These five words are irrelevant for the Giants and their fans and it is best to avoid saying them or thinking about them, for the sanity of all concerned.“If this was last year …”We will go ahead and use that phrase in the proper context and then banish it forever.If the top quarterbacks in the 2024 NFL Draft were available this year, the Giants would be sitting pretty.

They own the No.3 pick in the 2025 draft and would have been assured of getting one of the three top-tier quarterback prospects.The Giants had the No.

6 pick a year ago, watched quarterbacks come off the board 1, 2 and 3 — Caleb Williams, Jayden Daniels and Drake Maye — and selected wide receiver Malik Nabers. This year, it looks as if No.3 is one spot out of where the Giants need to be in what is widely considered an underwhelming and largely a two-quarterback draft, in terms of bona fide high-level prospects.

And the consensus is those two top guys, Cam Ward and Shedeur Sanders, grade out significantly below the top three quarterbacks in the 2024 draft.“They’re a year too late,’’ David Syvertse, senior draft analyst for Ourlads Scouting Service told The Post.We shall see if better late than never is the route the Giants choose to take.There are three quarterback groups, according to most draft analysts.Ward (Miami) and Sanders (Colorado) at the top of the list — in differing orders, depending on the eye of the beholder.

Next, it is Jalen Milroe (Alabama) as the third quarterback, almost in a space of his own, with Jaxson Dart (Ole Miss) ranging into that tier.Ward and Sanders will come off the board quickly — possibly No.1 and No.

2 to quarterback-needy teams (Titans and Browns) — and most expect Milroe to go later in the first round. After that, there is a third group, anticipated to be selected late in the first round, the se...