The Giants promised a thorough process to find their next general manager and they are delivering on that, as far as requesting and undertaking extensive interviews with some of the most highly-regarded young NFL executives in the league. To that end, they will bring in Adam Peters of the 49ers on Thursday for an in-person interview.

On Wednesday, the Giants planned to spend hours with Ryan Poles of the Chiefs. The second round of interviews kicked off Monday with Joe Schoen of the Bills. It is certainly possible the meeting with Peters will end the interview process and the Giants come to a decision on their new general manager by Friday. They need to jump into the search for a new head coach, with six teams – the Bears, Vikings, Dolphins, Broncos Texans and Jaguars – already taking steps to fill their head coach vacancy and a seventh team, the Raiders, likely to enter the market.

All interviews in this second round have or will take place at the Giants’ facility, conducted by co-owners John Mara and Steve Tisch and also Chris Mara, the senior vice president of player personnel. The finalists will also get a tour of the facility and sit down with other members of the Giants’ front office for more casual discussions. The first-round interviews – of which there were nine – were all conducted via teleconference.

Peters is only 38 years old and yet in his 18th year working in the NFL. He was a defensive end at UCLA and got his NFL start as a scouting assistant with the Patriots, where he received Super Bowl rings in each of his first two years in New England. Peters was hired by John Elway and spent eight years in Denver, mostly running the NFL Draft for the Broncos.

When John Lynch was hired out of the broadcast booth in 2017 as the 49ers’ general manager, he raided the Broncos for Peters, hiring him without an official interview. Lynch, a Hall of Fame safety, had no training as an NFL executive, and there are those in the 49ers organization who view Peters as the most indispensable member of the front office.

Poles, 36, is the youngest of the three known finalists. He is the Chiefs’ executive director of player personnel.

Schoen, the first of nine candidates to be interviewed via videoconference, was also the first finalist to come in for an in-person interview. Schoen, 42, is Bills’ assistant general manager.

All three finalists work for teams still alive in the playoffs. Schoen’s Bills face Poles’ Chiefs in an AFC divisional playoff game and Peters’ 49ers play the Packers at Lambeau Field in an NFC divisional game.

The others executives from the first round of Giants interviews: Ran Carthon (49ers director of player personnel), Adrian Wilson (Cardinals vice president of pro personnel), Quentin Harris (Cardinals vice president of player personnel), Ryan Cowden (Titans vice president of player personnel), Monti Ossenfort (Titans director of player personnel) and Joe Hortiz (Ravens director of player personnel).