Jaxson Dart is done for the season, and the Giants did what every franchise with a hole under center does. They called a neighbor with a spare.

The neighbor was Minnesota, the spare was J.J. McCarthy, and the price was a fifth-round pick. A fifth-round pick is a lottery ticket the league hands out to be forgotten. That is what New York paid to fill the most important position in the sport. Whether McCarthy moves the needle is the question ESPN's Bill Barnwell asked of the deal, and I will not pretend a fifth-rounder settles it. It does tell you how the Vikings valued him, or how badly the Giants needed a body.

Trace the capital. A quarterback is the one hire in football where a franchise will spend a first-round pick or a fifth, and the market has no stable price in between. Dart's injury made a seller out of Minnesota and a buyer out of New York, and the buyer got a discount.

Then there is Miami, which has no such market to visit. Running back Devon Achane tore his ACL and will miss the 2026 season, the NFL reported. The injury took the shine off a Kansas City win.

The league sells the Sunday slate as spectacle. New York found its answer for the price of a pick nobody will remember.