The New York Giants chosen dynamic LSU wideout Malik Nabers with the sixth general choose on this yr’s NFL draft, a transfer that ought to assist their low-scoring offense enhance.
The addition of Nabers might not be sufficient to maneuver the needle in some critics’ eyes, nonetheless. In Bleacher Report’s newest rankings of all 32 NFL groups, Alex Ballentine lists the Giants at No. 30 heading into this season.
It’s a little bit of an oversimplification, however the New York Giants offense was one of many worst within the league final season and misplaced its finest playmaker in Saquon Barkley. That’s not a recipe for a a lot better assault in 2024.
That’s not utterly honest, although. They did lose Daniel Jones for all however six video games, and he’ll be again. That’s not essentially an enormous improve, although. The silver lining for the Giants is that they made strikes that can give them a greater shot at being good—it simply may take a yr.
Malik Nabers provides them a authentic No. 1 receiver, and signing Jermaine Eluemunor and Jon Runyan Jr. provides them extra useful offensive linemen.
The accidents, which brought about the shuttling of offensive linemen and quarterbacks all season, led to a lot of the inconsistency final yr. The Giants averaged simply 15.6 factors per recreation. Solely New England and Carolina averaged much less.
Ballentine does, nonetheless, supply some hope for the Giants. As typical, it requires the crew to remain wholesome and acquire some traction with their younger core.
A lot of the enchancment wants to return from younger gamers rising into their roles. Evan Neal goes to get one other probability at proper sort out. Jalin Hyatt goes to have each alternative to carve out a big function within the passing recreation. The identical might be mentioned for Wan’Dale Robinson.
Brian Daboll did flip the offense round in 2022 with Jones on the helm. If he stays wholesome, Nabers is electrical from Day 1 and others step up, this offense might shock.
The Giants are going to provide Jones some rope right here as soon as he’s deemed wholesome. If he can’t get issues going, they might rapidly pivot to free agent Drew Lock to see if he can take this offense the place it must be.
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