Mystery team thinks Justin Herbert is draft’s top QB again. It’s definitely maybe the Giants

There’s a mystery team that believes Justin Herbert is the best quarterback in the draft. This team thought he was the best this time last year. Who is it?

What if some NFL team thought Justin Herbert was the best quarterback in the draft?

Turns out, there is apparently one mystery team that believes the Oregon Ducks signal-caller is the best pro prospect in the 2020 NFL Draft. Adding even more intrigue, this same mystery team viewed him as the best prospect if he were to have come out last year. Now, who could it be?

As a senior at Oregon, Herbert won a Pac-12 Championship, the Rose Bowl and the academic Heisman (William V. Campbell Trophy). With long blonde locks atop a 6-foot-6 frame, you can say he’s the next best thing to future shampoo model Trevor Lawrence. But with a biology degree from a Pac-12 school, you gotta keep ’em separated, for the time being, Dexter Holland style.

So who covets the greatest Oregon quarterback since Marcus Mariota? Do the Miami Dolphins want to make Herbert the greatest marine biologist since George Costanza? Are the SuperChargers formerly of San Diego willing to bolt up the draft board to pluck the next Duck out of the Autzen pond Dan Fouts built?

Oh, who are we kidding…this mystery team has gotta be the New York Football Giants.

General manager Dave Gettleman wouldn’t commit to Daniel Jones in 2020 at the scouting combine. It’s not like Eli Manning is walking through that door because he’s enjoying retirement these days. I wrote about Herbert being Manning’s potential successor two college football seasons ago. It all makes sense. So come out and play, G-Men. We know it’s you!

It’s tough to predict what the Giants will do in the draft, but it’s usually the wrong thing.

They could have taken former USC quarterback Sam Darnold No. 2 overall in 2018 but opted to go with former New York Jets fan, Penn State running back Saquon Barkley. Barkley is an awesome running back, but he’s not winning games on his own. Darnold is in the other locker room at MetLife.

Last year, the Giants were still in the market for a franchise quarterback, choosing to overdraft Jones out of Duke at No. 6 overall. Jones had his moments as a rookie, but you could still kind of sense the Giants were wishing Herbert left his native Eugene a year early.

This isn’t that hard to figure out, as the Giants are reportedly open to drafting Herbert or Alabama’s Tua Tagovailoa this year. Giving Jones the proverbial Josh Rosen treatment doesn’t yield great karmic implications, but at least the Arizona Cardinals are in a better place, right?

Sure, this mystery team could be somebody else, but the odds on favorite has to be the Giants.

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