MOBILE, Ala. — The Giants are surrounding Daniel Jones with coaches who helped mold Josh Allen and Patrick Mahomes into franchise-raising quarterbacks. If they can help lift Jones anywhere near the stratosphere inhabited by Allen and Mahomes, perhaps the Giants have their long-term answer at the most important position on the field.

New head coach Brian Daboll on Thursday selected Mike Kafka as his offensive coordinator, a key move for a side of the ball that went from bad to entirely broken in 2021.

Kafka, 34, certainly played a role in Mahomes’ development with the Chiefs. Daboll was there from the beginning with Allen in Buffalo, as was Shea Tierney, the Giants’ new quarterbacks coach. Jones is heading into the final year of his rookie contract and all signs point to the Giants not picking up his fifth-year option, which would cost $22.3 million in 2023. So, this is likely to be a make-or-break season up ahead for Jones, and he will have several new voices offering advice.

Kafka was the youngest of the three finalists for the offensive coordinator job. Daboll also considered Pep Hamilton (most recently with the Texans) and Chad O’Shea (Browns) and he went with Kafka, an interesting choice considering Kafka is not a play-caller.

Kafka played quarterback at Northwestern and was a 2010 fourth-round draft pick of the Eagles. He moved from team to team in a six-year career as a backup and started his coaching career in 2017 as a quality control coach with the Chiefs. The next year, Kafka was promoted to quarterbacks coach as the Chiefs moved Mahomes into the starting lineup. Kafka and Mahomes made magic together and in 2020 Kafka added the title of passing game coordinator.

“He had a big imprint on what I did, developing me to be the player that I am,” Mahomes said last year of Kafka. “And he continues that. He stays on me. He preaches the fundamentals. For somebody like me who likes to get away from that sometimes, it’s good to have that person in your ear that’s just telling you to take what’s there, keep your feet in the right spot, make the throw the right way, because that’s stuff that I need. It’s stuff that he makes me better with every single day.”

Kafka arrives to implement Daboll’s offense, but he is likely to add wrinkles he picked up from working in Kansas City with Andy Reid. That Reid thinks highly of Kafka — “I know his future is bright’’ — and that Kafka spent so much time learning from Reid can only help the Giants — and Jones.

Daboll called the plays on offense the past four seasons with the Bills, and it remains to be seen if he will retain that assignment as the head coach of the Giants. Joe Schoen, the new general manager, has said he prefers that Daboll not call the plays. Daboll said he is not married to calling the plays, and whether he does would depend on whom he hired as offensive coordinator.

“We’ll see how it goes,” Daboll said on Monday. “This hire will be important, all the hires are gonna be important. We’ll find the right guy and we’ll work together, if he can call the plays and if we feel comfortable with that I’m fine with that.”

Daboll is keeping Patrick Graham as the defensive coordinator. Graham was a finalist for the Vikings head coach position, but that is reportedly going to Rams offensive coordinator Kevin O’Connell. Daboll is also retaining Thomas McGaughey as the special teams coordinator.