One of two things happened in the Giants’ war room last Thursday night in the first-round of the NFL Draft.

General manager Dave Gettleman panicked, or was given bad intelligence, before handing in a draft card that had former Duke quarterback Daniel Jones’ name on it with the No. 6 overall pick.

Gettleman admitted after the first-round that the Giants had the same grade on Jones and one of the elite pass rushers in a class top-heavy with talent at a desperate position of need, Kentucky’s Josh Allen.

However, the Giants opted for Jones, in a decision that has been panned in league circles.

“There is no way he was going anywhere else in the top 17 picks,” one plugged-in executive for an AFC team told Bleacher Report’s Matt Miller. “We run mock drafts and run through the scenarios and I hadn’t heard of one team that wanted Jones other than them.”

Miller’s reporting is in stark contrast to the familiar refrain that Gettleman has repeated since the weekend.

“I know for a fact there are two teams that would’ve taken him,” Gettleman said Saturday. “I know that for a fact.”

However, it is nearly impossible to find a team that would have taken Jones from underneath the Giants’ before their turn came back around at No. 17.

Even if the Giants had taken Allen at No. 6, the Denver Broncos decided to trade out of the No. 10 spot with the Pittsburgh Steelers and Gettleman had far more draft capital as ammunition if Jones was still on the board and wanted to outbid Pittsburgh.

“The smart move is draft a pass-rusher [at No. 6] and then try to trade back up for the quarterback if you have to, but I still don’t think they would have had to,” the same executive told Miller.

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Unless Jones becomes a franchise quarterback and leads the Giants back to relevancy after making the playoffs just once in the past seven seasons, it looks as though Gettleman might have committed his own mortal draft sin.

“I won’t force a pick,” Gettleman said during his pre-draft press conference. “You can’t draft for need. You will get screwed every time and make a mistake.”

Is drafting a quarterback different?

“No," Gettleman said. “It is not.”

Matt Lombardo may be reached at MLombardo@njadvancemedia.com. Follow him on Twitter @MattLombardoNFL