The New York Giants have been criticized for his or her skinny roster the previous few years, a pattern that can proceed except they’ll change minds with their play on the sector.
In a latest record of NFL group’s extensive receiver, tight finish, and operating again expertise for the 2024 season, ESPN’s Invoice Barnwell ranked Huge Blue twenty ninth within the league.
That’s down from final 12 months’s rating (twenty seventh) however a notch above the No. 30 score of 2022.
Barnwell notes the lack of star operating again Saquon Barkley in free company could possibly be offset by the addition of high draft choose Malik Nabers, a large receiver from LSU.
Barkley is gifted however was typically injured and Nabers must excel for this swap to work out for the Giants.
If Nabers is something in need of spectacular as a rookie, this received’t be a reasonably offense. Devin Singletary had a good 2023 season with the Texans, nevertheless it’s going to be a lot more durable for him with out C.J. Stroud and a devastatingly environment friendly passing assault. Darren Waller retired and wasn’t actually changed. I’ve at all times felt Darius Slayton was underrated and underappreciated as a deep risk, however he’s in all probability not an every-down receiver in higher offenses. I don’t know why Allen Robinson continues to be within the league. Wan’Dale Robinson has been strictly a gadget man over his first two seasons, and Jalin Hyatt’s offseason hype has revolved round figuring out the place to line up earlier than the snap in Yr 2.
Some readability on this evaluation. The Giants are backfilling the lack of Barkley with a committee strategy at operating again. Singletary is the highest again within the rotation for the time being, however there are others (Eric Grey and rookie Tyrone Tracy), who the group are excessive on.
Nabers joins Hyatt and Robinson — each latest Day 2 draft picks — in an eclectic, however fascinating trio of younger expertise at receiver. In fact, they’ve but to hit the sector and nobody can predict how they are going to click on.
Waller was changed. The Giants anticipated his retirement by signing Chris Manhertz and Jack Stoll in free company after which deciding on Penn State’s Theo Johnson within the draft.
Manhertz and Stoll are mainly backups however Johnson has the identical bodily dimensions as Waller and is an fascinating add that might shock as a rookie.