Adam Schefter details latest buzz surrounding free agent QB Daniel Jones

Daniel Jones is expected to clear waivers and the Baltimore Ravens and Minnesota Vikings are seemingly the top suitors for the former New York Giants QB.

ESPN’s Adam Schefter revealed the upside of signing the former first round pick out of Duke. A playoff team gets a veteran backup at a cheap price and it could pay off if he leaves.

Schefter gave the latest on Jones Monday.

“Well, you have to understand what this is about,” Schefter said on The Pat McAfee Show. “And he goes through waivers. I would expect that he clears waivers at four o’clock, and anybody that signs him gets a former starting quarterback for the rest of the year for basically $375,000 and not only do they have to pay him $375,000 for a good backup like you just compared Daniel Jones the backup quarterback on a lot of these teams, and say, ‘Who would you rather have?’ But then, if he goes and leaves this offseason and signs with another team, even for backup quarterback money, seven, $8 million a year, the Ravens then will get a compensatory draft pick, or their Vikings, or whoever signs him, right?” 

Schefter also explained why Jones going to the Ravens or Vikings makes more sense than a team like the Las Vegas Raiders, who just lost Gardner Minshew for the season.

“So the upside inside of this guys, you get him as a backup, and you get a compensatory draft pick for $375,000 so why would every team not be lining up now,” Schefter said. “I think Daniel Jones, I believe, he’s going to be a little bit selective and prefer to go to a playoff team like Baltimore, like Minnesota. I think those two teams will figure prominently. He doesn’t want to go from the Giants to the Raiders, despite the fact that the Raiders lost Gardner Minshew.

“I’d be surprised in the end if that’s what he winds up doing. I think he’s going to want to go to an environment that is a stable organization, a successful organization, playing meaningful games. So he’ll clear, or at least we expect him to clear waivers, at four o’clock today, and then he’ll get to choose his own home, which I would imagine will happen sooner rather than later.”

The Ravens have to wait until they play the Los Angeles Chargers on Monday night. But they’ll be in the thick of things when it comes to Jones.

“Ravens play on Monday night football tonight,” Schefter said. “We’ll see if they turn out to be a team, I just think that they’ll be in the thick of this thing, and I think there are other playoff teams as well. That’ll be in the thinking like, if you were Daniel Jones, why would you not want to go play for Kevin O’Connell or John Harbaugh where some of these teams out there, having the types of seasons that they are? So that’s what I think he’ll wind up doing.”