EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- The New York Giants are retaining general manager Joe Schoen despite closing out a third straight losing season Sunday, the team announced Monday.
The Giants fired coach Brian Daboll last month, and Schoen was figured to be on the hot seat. Schoen and Daboll were hired together in 2022.
Giants co-owners John Mara and Steve Tisch said in a statement Monday that although the results of the 2025 season were "deeply disappointing," they are prioritizing "continuity and stability" in the front office, calling it "important to our progress."
Schoen has one year left on his original contract. He declined to talk about his own personal situation when asked Monday if he'd been given an extension as he enters a fifth year with the organization while leading the current coaching search.
"I'm honored and humbled that John Mara and Steve Tisch would allow me to see this process through. ... To our fans, I understand the wins haven't been what the expectation is, and I'm fortunate with being tasked with getting the organization and the franchise back where it belongs. That is the goal as we move forward," Schoen said. "We're going to start the search for the next head coach of the New York Giants. As soon as I leave [this news conference], that's what we're going to go start focusing on.
"And we're going to get the right person to lead the franchise again. Get us back to what the standards is, and that's competing for championships on a yearly basis."
New York (4-13) has the fifth pick in the 2026 NFL draft after winning its final two games.
The Giants were complimentary last year of the staff that Schoen, 46, had assembled, and Mara had boasted that the information they were using to make personnel decisions was the best he had seen.
Their last two draft classes appear promising as a result, seemingly guiding the decision to retain Schoen. Those drafts produced quarterback Jaxson Dart, wide receiver Malik Nabers, edge rusher Abdul Carter and running backs Cam Skattebo and Tyrone Tracy Jr., among others.
"We believe in our young core of talent, which we can build around for future success," Mara and Tisch said in their statement Monday.
Schoen has been handling the team's coaching search over the past month, doing the heavy lifting as Mara deals with cancer. Schoen, with the input of his inner circle, submitted a list of candidates to ownership last week.
The Giants' search for the team's next head coach is expected to kick into high gear this week now that the regular season is over, and the team said Monday that Schoen will continue to lead the search. Interim coach Mike Kafka is expected to be one of the candidates interviewed.
Schoen and Daboll were essentially put on the hot seat after last season, when they went 3-14. The results improved only marginally. Daboll didn't survive. Schoen did.
Now the question is whether Schoen's presence after three straight rough seasons will affect the coaching search.
"That has not come up one time," he said. "It doesn't appear to be anything that's going to deter a coach wanting to take this job. There's actually the opposite. There is a lot of excitement for the opportunity. We have phenomenal ownership, the history of the team and some of the young pieces that are in place, along with some of the veterans."
New York has fallen on hard times after making the playoffs in the pair's first season together. It has gone 7-27 over the past two seasons and has a .255 winning percentage since the start of 2023. Only the Tennessee Titans are worse.
It's emblematic of Schoen's tenure, which has been filled with miscues ever since the Giants surprisingly made the playoffs at 9-7-1 in his first year. He has admitted to expediting the process following the success of 2022 and it leading to mistakes.
The Giants are 22-45-1 during the regular season and 1-1 in the postseason during Schoen's tenure as GM.
Schoen signed quarterback Daniel Jones to a long-term deal following that season and placed the franchise tag on running back Saquon Barkley. Jones was cut less than two years later. Barkley left as a free agent the following year for the rival Philadelphia Eagles, where he won Offensive Player of the Year and the Super Bowl in his first season with the team. Safety Xavier McKinney also walked that same offseason in free agency and was an immediate All-Pro for the Green Bay Packers.
Schoen's first-round picks have also included offensive tackle Evan Neal and cornerback Deonte Banks. Neal didn't play a snap this season, and Banks' only real role for most of the season was as a kickoff returner. In addition, outside linebacker Kayvon Thibodeaux, the fifth selection in the 2022 draft, hasn't developed into the Pro Bowl player he was expected to be.
But the 2025 draft included Dart, Carter and Skattebo. The previous year's draft produced Nabers, Tracy and tight end Theo Johnson.
