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Originally Posted by Kray007
He wasn’t benched by the Giants because they thought that Lock or DeVito gave them a better chance to win. They pulled the plug on him because his 2025 salary of $25 Million was fully guaranteed for injury.
Beyond that, even though no one in the Giants organization would admit it, the move to bench Jones had more than a whiff of tanking.
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Ah. I didn't know about the injury clause in his contract. Makes sense that they would want to make sure he didn't get injured since they had decided to run him out of town.
I'm not so sure about the tanking though. For starters they were doing a damn good job of tanking w/ Jones in there, and also DeVito played much better than Jones in 2023.