{"id":34308,"date":"2025-05-08T17:58:13","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T17:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/34308\/"},"modified":"2025-05-08T17:58:13","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T17:58:13","slug":"giants-took-one-more-swing-on-cam-ward-with-last-second-nfl-draft-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/34308\/","title":{"rendered":"Giants took &#8216;one more swing&#8217; on Cam Ward with last-second NFL draft call"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Schoen knew what the outcome of this phone call would be. But as the general manager of a Giants team searching for a long-term answer at quarterback, he had to do his due diligence.<\/p>\n<p>As shown in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JgXFz-CfB5o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">the team\u2019s \u201cGiants Life: 2025 NFL Draft\u201d show<\/a> posted online Thursday, Schoen stood up from his seat to call Titans general manager Mike Borgonzi to take one last crack at moving up from No. 3 to No. 1 in an attempt to get Miami quarterback Cam Ward.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWere you waiting for this? Are you gonna pick?\u201d Schoen says to Borgonzi before breaking out in laughter. \u201cI had to do it, I had to do it. All right, man. Well, good luck to you man. I was gonna wait and just call you now on the clock, so I figured you guys were picking. But thought I\u2019d give it one more swing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.71524288;display:block\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"35869565\" width=\"1012\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/schoen.jpg\" alt=\"Giants GM Joe Schoen calls Titans GM Mike Borgonzi at the start of the 2025 NFL Draft.\" class=\"wp-image-35869565\"  \/>Giants GM Joe Schoen calls Titans GM Mike Borgonzi at the start of the 2025 NFL Draft. YouTube\/New York Giants<\/p>\n<p>Schoen then sat back down between owner John Mara and head coach Brian Daboll, telling the room, \u201cTennessee\u2019s gonna pick. I think Ward\u2019s going here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The top two went as expected for the Giants, as they anticipated Ward going to the Titans and Colorado wide receiver\/cornerback Travis Hunter going No. 2.<\/p>\n<p>Schoen says in \u201cGiants Life\u201d he team caught wind about a week before the draft that a team other than the Browns would be picking at No. 2; the Jaguars traded up to take the two-way star.<\/p>\n<p>The Giants then took Penn State edge rusher Abdul Carter at No. 3 and traded up to take Ole Miss QB Jaxson Dart at No. 25.<\/p>\n<p>The Post\u2019s Paul Schwartz reported hours before the first round of the draft that <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/04\/24\/sports\/inside-giants-2025-nfl-draft-thinking-on-shedeur-sanders-jaxson-dart\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Giants would make a last-ditch effort to trade with the Titans<\/a>, but that they understood Tennessee was extremely unlikely to trade down.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.46077033;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"35869557\" width=\"862\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/cam-ward-second-right-poses-103316640.jpg\" alt=\"From right: Titans GM Mike Borgonzi, QB Cam Ward, Warren Moon, Amy Adams Strunk, head coach Brian Callahan and president of football operations Chad Brinker.\" class=\"wp-image-35869557\"  \/>From right: Titans GM Mike Borgonzi, QB Cam Ward, Warren Moon, Amy Adams Strunk, head coach Brian Callahan and president of football operations Chad Brinker. Denny Simmons \/ The Tennessean \/ USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images<\/p>\n<p>Dart was the second QB off the board and there were only two quarterbacks taken in the first round in what was considered a weaker draft class for that position.<\/p>\n<p>Shedeur Sanders, once projected as a top-three pick, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/05\/07\/sports\/tom-brady-makes-surprising-claim-about-nfl-draft-role-as-shedeur-sanders-slid\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fell all the way to the Browns at No. 144<\/a> in the fifth round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joe Schoen knew what the outcome of this phone call would be. 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