NEW YORK — Giants first-round pick Malik Nabers was asked what he makes of Daniel Jones as a quarterback on Thursday.

It was a standard question that 99 times out of 100 results elicits an answer like ‘he’s a great player.’ That is not how Nabers responded.

“I’ll wait until I get here to see all of that,” he said. “I’m just happy to be here.”

It’s not Nabers’ job to judge Jones, obviously. It’s his job to catch passes and score touchdowns. And his answer may have just been a tired 20-year-old trying to move on to the next topic.

But it was an appropriately awkward exchange given where the Giants stand at quarterback after this weekend’s NFL draft:

In no man’s land, holding hands with a player that they just tried to replace.

GM Joe Schoen claimed he is “comfortable” with his quarterback room of Jones, Drew Lock and Tommy DeVito. But the reality is he tried hard to get North Carolina quarterback Drake Maye in the first round of this draft to no avail.

He included his No. 6 overall pick, his second-round pick and the Giants’ 2025 first-rounder in a trade offer with the New England Patriots at No. 3 overall, sources said, only to watch the Pats stick and take Maye themselves.

Fascinatingly, Schoen pivoted off a quarterback altogether once Maye came off the board, rather than taking the next passer. And some league sources agreed with not just taking a QB like Michigan’s J.J. McCarthy or Washington’s Michael Penix Jr. to take one, assuming the Giants didn’t have them graded that highly.

One executive even said Schoen showed good “discipline” by sticking and taking Nabers, an elite playmaker, to help the NFL’s 30th-ranked offense.

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