In hindsight, there were red flags about the Daniel Jones Era with the Giants before he ever locked his eyes on a first read or ran into an injury-causing collision.

“When I first sat down with Daniel,” owner John Mara said before the rookie Jones replaced legend Eli Manning early in the 2019 season, “it was eerie to me how similar … it was [to] talking to a 22-year-old Eli, which is a good thing.”

There it is. The No. 1 trap that the Giants cannot fall into in their search to draft the next franchise quarterback is subconsciously (or otherwise) trying to fit a square peg into the Manning Mold for How to Handle Quarterbacking in New York.

Scout for arm strength, accuracy, mobility, awareness and leadership — not Manningness.