Schoen delivered a mixed bag of results on his first contract
The New York Giants kept their front office intact amid a coaching change earlier this offseason, and now they are locking it in for the long term. General manager Joe Schoen signed a multi-year extension with the team, the Giants announced Thursday, to retain the position he has held since 2022.
While the Giants remain in search of their first playoff appearance since Schoen’s debut season, they enter 2026 with momentum and clearly want to give Schoen a chance to see things through with the promising players he added over the last couple of years.
The extension, however, figures to draw mixed reviews at best from a Giants fanbase that made its frustrations with Schoen known over the last three years of struggles. Questions arose during the four-win 2025 campaign about whether Schoen was more to blame for the Giants’ struggles than coach Brian Daboll, who lost his job in November. And when team owner and president John Mara chose to keep Schoen on board, it appeared the franchise had lost direction.
“We feel like Joe has assembled a good young nucleus of talent, and we look forward to its development,” Mara said in a statement. “Unfortunately, the results over the past three years have not been what any of us want. We take full responsibility for those results and look forward to the kind of success our fans expect.”
A string of successful draft picks paired with the arrival of coach John Harbaugh brightens the outlook for New York in 2026 and beyond, and Schoen will have every opportunity to reap the rewards. But his spotty track record with roster building — including whiffs on a pair of top-10 picks in 2022 and a then-questionable contract for quarterback Daniel Jones — suggests things could turn back the other direction.
