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Before he was a Tush Push expert, Jalen Hurts was the type of gift that could make every downtrodden Giants fan feel differently about last week’s win.
There is no greater source of salary-cap relief in NFL team-building than a franchise quarterback on a rookie contract — except a franchise quarterback on a rookie contract who was drafted later than the first round.
The Eagles, who will face the Giants on Sunday, went to a Super Bowl with the former second-round pick Hurts on a four-year, $6 million contract (before he earned a $255 million extension).
The Giants’ search for their future quarterback was complicated Sunday by beating the Colts and slipping from the No. 1 pick to No. 4 in the projected draft order.
If they beat the Eagles’ backups (starters are resting for the playoffs), the Giants could slip as low as No. 9.
Sure, one option will be trading up for Colorado’s Shedeur Sanders or Miami’s Cam Ward.
But it’s time to cast a wider net and consider using the first-round pick to plug another of the Giants’ many holes while identifying a developmental quarterback with a second- or third-round grade.
Finding the next Hurts, Derek Carr or Russell Wilson would turn cursed wins into a blessing.
The Giants reportedly had high-level scouting executives get multiple live exposures during the college season to Alabama’s Jalen Milroe, Texas’ Quinn Ewers, Georgia’s Carson Beck and Mississippi’s Jaxson Dart.
All four played in the SEC, which Giants owner John Mara says was one of the key tiebreakers once upon a time when drafting Eli Manning over Ben Roethlisberger.
So, what’s the early scouting read on this Plan B quartet?
Milroe
Likely to be the third quarterback selected, Milroe could sneak into the first round because of supply-demand.
“He is a project,” ESPN draft analyst Matt Miller told The Post. “But, especially if you are like, ‘We want to go the Jalen Hurts route,’ that’s your guy.”
The dual threat combines great speed in the open field and the 225-pound frame to withstand hits as a runner (719 yards and 20 touchdowns on the ground) with a strong (but wild) arm.
“It’s like early Josh Allen,” Miller said. “You see where he’s going with the ball and it’s like, ‘OK, that’s a good decision.’ But then it’s 10 yards over the guy’s head. It might be bad at times because he needs his mechanics reworked, but amazing at times because he’s a playmaker.”
As one quarterbacks coach put it in a general sense, “I can teach footwork. Decision-making under pressure is more difficult. And you can’t teach 4.3 [second] speed.”
Ewers
The former No. 1-overall recruit kept golden child Arch Manning on the bench for two years.
He handled that sticky situation with the same calm and cool demeanor as a key fourth down in the College Football Playoff quarterfinals win.
“After Milroe, that’s where it gets muddy,” Miller said. “Ewers hasn’t balled out, but he is unfairly dinged because Arch is his backup and the expectations of being the savior of Texas football. All the tools are there. Really good leader.”
Ewers has missed at least two games due to injury in each of his three seasons starting.
“That’s a big key with him,” Miller said. “I think the oblique from earlier this season is bothering him more than has been reported because you see how much velocity he has lost. He throws a beautiful soft touch, but he’s not just ripping the ball anymore.”
Ewers’ interception rate is up and his yards-per-attempt is down this season.
“It looks good,” one AFC scout said, “except two throws a game that make you want to pull your hair out.”
Beck
A preseason candidate to be the No. 1 pick, Beck’s stock tumbled long before undergoing UCL surgery on his elbow on Dec. 23.
49ers quarterback Brock Purdy returned to game action about five months after UCL surgery (seven months after injury).
“Even taking the injury out of the equation, I thought he was a second- or third-round pick,” Miller said. “He worries me more than the other guys because he got worse with more game time.”
Beck led the SEC in touchdowns (28) and interceptions (12).
The latter number prompts concerns that his 2023 breakthrough was an uplift from Ladd McConkey and Brock Bowers — both of whom are enjoying 100-catch NFL rookie seasons.
Beck lacks the type of big arm and mobility that jump off the tape.
“You could watch his week-to-week progression last year and be really excited,” Miller said. “It was his ability to see the field, he never got rattled, he had good ball placement. But the ball placement has fallen off, and the jump you were expecting never happened.”
Dart
Scouts are going to earn their stripes evaluating Dart, who led the SEC in completion percentage (68.6) and passing yards (3,875).
“That offense doesn’t ask him to do anything,” said Miller, who ranks Oregon’s Dillon Gabriel as his No. 6 quarterback ahead of Dart. “Deep route-checkdown-bubble screen is all they do. He has a good arm, but he’s hard to evaluate because in the last two years, I haven’t seen him make very many NFL throws.”
There also will be questions about whether the seemingly undersized Dart is generously listed at 6-foot-2.
He will be one of the most-observed prospects at the Senior Bowl.
“I think he’s a third-round pick right now,” Miller said, “but that could change pretty wildly.”
