Joe Schoen agrees to multi-year contract extension as Giants GM

EAST RUTHERFORD - The New York Giants have signed general manager Joe Schoen to a multi-year contract extension, an individual familiar with the deal told NorthJersey. com and The Record on Thursday night. The team confirmed the agreement was in place soon after the news broke.

Schoen, who turns 47 in July, had something to prove after the Giants fired Brian Daboll as head coach, who joined the organization in January 2022 with Schoen by his side. But ownership insisted Schoen and Daboll were not a package deal from the beginning. So while Daboll's exit came in November on the heels of three losing seasons, the Giants stuck with Schoen and he was influential in the courtship and ultimately the hiring of John Harbaugh as their head coach.

This was never about power, not in the sense of the  Giants  taking power away from Schoen and giving it to Harbaugh as head coach. It's about restoring the pride in a franchise that, no matter how much they talk it, actually feeling the emotion and gravity of that isn't for everybody to appreciate. And in that head coach, Schoen now has a Super Bowl champion and possible Hall of Famer with whom he can team and strive for that standard the Giants have failed to meet for far too long now.

Harbaugh's presence and the hiring of Dawn Aponte as a front office executive that reports directly to the head coach does not make Schoen irrelevant, relegating him to a role as a glorified scout, which has been a misguided perception for some. In fact, it's quite the opposite. Schoen and Harbaugh have worked well together, with the latter praising the former every chance he gets.