It all lined up and worked out for Daniel Jones as he navigated through the most important season of his NFL life.

It is equal parts what he avoided — getting hurt, making the big mistake — and what he achieved — his first real taste of winning, a penchant for making the right decision — that combined to convince the new general manager, Joe Schoen, and the new head coach, Brian Daboll, that Jones could be and should be the Giants’ quarterback moving forward.

It was not easy for Jones to earn the four-year, $160 million contract the Giants put together for him.

In many ways, the odds were stacked against him, with the smarter betting money on Jones being unable to check enough boxes and the Giants looking elsewhere in 2023.

The Giants, though, did not pay Jones for what he had been.

They invested in him for the growth they believe will be revealed.

Part and parcel in achieving that growth is Jones, 26, making more plays.

He must be more proactive than reactive.

He must not only make the correct call but also the daring call.

He must not only be safe, he must also be scintillating.

Daniel Jones must take more risks if he is to ascend from the mid-level tier of NFL quarterbacks into a performer capable of breaking into the top 10 at his position.

“His mentality changing helps, in terms of looking for things downfield more,’’ quarterbacks coach Shea Tierney told The Post earlier this offseason. “We’ve talked about that a little bit more. It always comes back to ‘What’s the situation, what are we trying to get done?’ and he’s got a great understanding of that.

“It always goes back to the situational awareness for us. What is the intent of the call and he does a great job of knowing that. The play call comes in, here’s the intent, here’s the situation, now what’s the defense doing? He’s got 1,000 things to think of at about five or six seconds before the ball’s snapped. Changing that mentality is part of the risk-reward. When is the right time to take the risk, when is the time to say ‘Hey, you know what? The risk really ain’t worth it here, let me just go back, take what they give me and we’ll move on.’

“The more he does that, we’ll keep calling those risk-reward plays to help it time up to where the risk comes.’’

This is not about Jones — who takes the field Wednesday with his teammates for the first practice of training camp — firing the ball all over the field, racking up more touchdown passes at the expense of a surging interception rate.

But a lot more of the former, if it means a little more of the latter, can be acceptable for the Giants.

Jones’ modest total of 15 touchdown passes in 2022 was 21st in the league, tied with Marcus Mariota, who threw 172 fewer passes for the Falcons than Jones attempted for the Giants.

Jones’ interception percentage of 1.1 (five interceptions in 472 attempts) was the lowest in the league. The Giants should be able to afford a few more interceptions in exchange for a significant rise in touchdowns.

Jones’ average depth of target last season was 6.42 yards; only Matt Ryan with the Colts threw shorter passes more frequently.

Jones threw passes within 10 yards of the line of scrimmage 75.6 percent of the time; only Ryan and Matthew Stafford of the Rams were higher.

Safe passing and checkdowns and airing it out only when necessary were part of a nine-win season.

The Giants would like to see more of the Daniel Jones that torched the Vikings for 24 completions and 301 passing yards in the 31-24 playoff victory.

The Giants were last in the league in completed passes of 20 or more yards with only 28 of them.

“You definitely want that to be a part of your offense,’’ offensive coordinator Mike Kafka said. “I think that’s one thing we kind of did a deep dive on is how can we, whether improve it to get some more of those opportunities or personnel to get the right people in the right spots. That’s our job to make sure we do that the right way.’’

There were encouraging signs in the spring, as Jones clearly looked more comfortable in his second year in Daboll’s offense. In an early practice, Jones sensed a safety was looming and hesitated throwing the deep ball to Darius Slayton. The next week, Jones got the same look and hit Slayton.

“It was like hey, that’s the look we we’re looking for last year and he’s kinda grown and made that step,’’ Tierney said.

Another step for Jones, with many more to go.