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Daniel Jones has no doubt he’ll be ready Week 1; QB wasn’t ‘fired up’ Giants looked at drafting QB – Kevin Patra, NFL.com

Coming off an ACL injury, Jones says he’ll be ready for the season opener.

Daniel Jones expects to be in the saddle Week 1.

Coming off a torn ACL suffered in November, the New York Giants quarterback participated in 7-on-7 drills this week during OTAs. Asked Thursday if there are any doubts that he’ll be ready to face Minnesota to open the 2024 campaign, Jones responded: “I don’t have any doubt about it.”

Head coach Brian Daboll said the Giants are still taking it slow with the QB coming off injury, keeping him out of full team drills.

“He looks good. We’re not putting him in some team stuff, but he’s making progress so that’s why we got him in 7-on-7. … We’ll take it day by day and when he can do more, we’ll put him in more,” Daboll told reporters on Thursday.

Jones’ injury history and on-field struggles for much of his five-year career led the Giants, who picked No. 6 overall in the 2024 NFL Draft, to take deep dives into the rookie quarterbacks coming out.

“I mean, I wasn’t fired up about it,” Jones responded when asked about the club looking into potential replacements.

Eagles sign former first-round wide receiver John Ross to one-year deal – Tyler Sullivan, CBS Sports

Philadelphia signs the speedy WR just days after DeVante Parker announced his retirement.

John Ross is back in the NFL. On Thursday, the former first-round wide receiver signed a one-year deal with the Philadelphia Eagles, the team announced. The specific financial terms were not immediately disclosed. This signing comes after Ross accepted an invitation to Eagles rookie minicamp as a tryout player.

This is the next step in Ross’ comeback attempt into the league. The 28-year-old signed a futures/reserve contract with the Kansas City Chiefs in January 2023. Later that July, however, Ross informed the team that he was retiring and was then placed on the reserve/retired list.

Before initially calling it a career, Ross last played in a regular-season game back on Dec. 12, 2021 (Week 14) when he was with the New York Giants. Ross entered the league as the No. 9 overall pick of the Cincinnati Bengals in 2017 out of Washington. His record-breaking speed at the NFL Scouting Combine helped build his hype as he made his transition into the NFL, but was never able to truly live up to that first-round billing.

Injuries limited Ross to three games during his rookie season and plagued him for most of his tenure with the Bengals. In 13 games played (career high) in 2018, he caught 21 passes for 210 yards and seven touchdowns. He notched highs in receptions (28) and receiving yards (506) the following year in 2019 despite only playing in eight contests.

Jonathan Allen: It’s been reinvigorating around Commanders this offseason – Josh Alper, Pro Football Talk

The new regime has provided much-needed revitalization for Washington.

Good vibes have been in short supply around the Commanders in recent years, but the team made major changes this offseason and the air around the facility has been a little sweeter as a result.

That was the word from defensive lineman Jonathan Allen on Wednesday. Allen said that everyone in the organization is “pushing toward the same direction” under new head coach Dan Quinn and General Manager Adam Peters and that he believes that will be “so great” for a team that limped to a 4-13 record in 2023.

While it remains to be seen what the changes will mean in the standings, Allen said there’s already been a clear improvement on how it feels to come to work every day.

“It has truly been reinvigorating and just so fun to come to work every day,” Allen said, via Ben Standig of TheAthletic.com. “This is really just a dream job right now.”

Quinn and Peters are joined by a new quarterback in second overall pick Jayden Daniels in what the Commanders hope will be the foundation of a lot more reasons to smile in the years to come. It looks like things are on the right track so far.