‘Hard Knocks’ moment with Joe Schoen’s family shows QB talk hours before NFL Draft

“Jayden Daniels,” son Carson shouted while tossing a football. “Trade up and get him. Why not?”

Carson, a quarterback himself at New Jersey’s Don Bosco Prep, emphasized an aggressive mindset knowing that his dad might only have one chance at being an NFL general manager.

“You only get this job once. Might as well try to win,” he reinforced.

Schoen, though, quipped that Daniels — whom the Giants loved but couldn’t move up to get after being blocked by the Washington Commanders — wouldn’t be available.

At that point, Carson identified Drake Maye, Marvin Harrison Jr. or Malik Nabers as contingency options.

“I mean, you can’t mess up,” Carson mused.

Schoen’s teenage son’s thought process generally mirrored that of his dad and the Giants, who explored virtually every avenue to trade up for a blue-chip quarterback prospect.

The fourth episode portrayed Schoen’s conversation with Patriots executive vice president of player personnel Eliot Wolf in an effort to move up from No. 6 to No. 3 for Maye, but New England nixed that unless there were a “pretty significant” offer.

Giants owner John Mara also expressed some hesitations about surrendering too much capital in order to land a potential franchise quarterback, although he did reference trading for Eli Manning in 2004 — a gamble that certainly paid off.

If a signal-caller were not available — as became the case when Caleb Williams, Daniels and Maye went in the first three picks — the focus was solely on either Harrison or Nabers at sixth overall, which came to fruition.

Meanwhile, Schoen’s oldest daughter, Sydney, had a different quarterback in mind: Michigan’s J.J. McCarthy.

“I’m just looking at who looks like they would be a good quarterback,” Sydney offered.

Carson, though, wasn’t buying it.

“All the girls want J.J. McCarthy because he’s good-looking,” he asserted, adding that Daniels had the appearance of a top QB. “Look at him.”

The Giants were regularly linked to McCarthy throughout the pre-draft process, but “Hard Knocks” has diminished that notion.

While the show revealed that the Wolverine did meet with the team at its headquarters on a top-30 visit, McCarthy was never squarely in its list of top-seven prospects — and was never mentioned as a realistic target at No. 6 by top executives.

For what it’s worth, Schoen’s youngest daughter, Harper, also pointed to Maye while reading a list of options presented by her dad.

Although all three of Schoen’s children seemed to want quarterbacks, the franchise’s efforts to trade up were eventually squashed, leaving Nabers as the choice at No. 6.

The Giants practice for the first time Wednesday and begin their preseason Aug. 8 against the Detroit Lions.