The New York Giants made six picks within the 2024 NFL draft, beginning with LSU huge receiver Malik Nabers in Spherical 1.
Nabers figures to comply with within the footsteps of the the opposite nice wideouts to come back out of Baton Rouge in recent times comparable to Odell Beckham Jr., Ja’Marr Chase, and Justin Jefferson.
However the Giants might have chanced on one other productive participant of their fifth-round choice, Purdue working again Tyrone Tracy Jr., whom TouchdownWire’s Doug Farrar calls the sleeper of this Giants’ draft class.
With Saquon Barkley out of the image, the Giants had a pre-draft working again rotation of Devin Singletary, 2023 fifth-round decide Eric Grey, and a bunch of “meh” after that. Which signifies that anybody coming in from the draft would have a possibility past the preseason.
Enter Purdue working again Tyrone Tracy Jr., who at 5′ 11⅛” and 209 kilos, totaled 714 yards, eight touchdowns, 46 compelled missed tackles, 14 carries of 15 or extra yards, and 36 first downs on simply 114 carries. That put Tracy with a yards per carry common of 6.3 — one other arbiter of his big-play potential and talent to run with energy. Tracy may also catch the ball. In reality, earlier than he was a working again at Purdue, he was a receiver at Iowa, and he truly made large performs in that rubbish hearth of an offense. Not dangerous for a man who was there with the 166th general decide within the fifth spherical.
Tracy may have a possibility to play a number of roles for the Giants on offense and particular groups. The most important plus, nonetheless, is his versatility as a receiver, which hasn’t gotten previous head coach Brian Daboll.
“He’s a former receiver. When it comes to yards per carry, he’s been fairly good,” Daboll mentioned. “He’s an athlete who has performed receiver after which performed working again and has some good manufacturing. We’ll throw him within the combine. Whether or not that’s within the kickoff return recreation or whether or not that’s at working again or the receiving a part of it, we’ve acquired to do a very good job of getting him in right here and seeing the place he’s at after which making an attempt to suit him into the issues that he can do nicely.”
Within the post-Saquon Barley age, the Giants may use some fast solutions of their backfield. It seems to be like they might have discovered one.
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