The New York Giants will possible be in prime place to pick a prime extensive receiver within the first spherical of the 2024 NFL draft on Thursday night time in Detroit.
With the sixth total decide, they may possible get a shot at considered one of this 12 months’s three stud wideouts — Malik Nabers of LSU, Washington’s Rome Odunze, and Marvin Harrison Jr. of Ohio State.
Within the Giants’ historical past, they’ve solely used a first-round decide on a pure extensive receiver six occasions. Right here’s who they took with these picks (in no explicit order).
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Ike Hilliard has the honour of being the one extensive receiver the Giants selected within the prime 10 of the draft. He was a gentle performer for eight seasons with the Giants with 368 receptions for 4,630 yards and 27 touchdowns. He completed his profession with 4 seasons in Tampa Bay and has been a receivers coach in each faculty and the NFL for the previous 15 years.
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One of the crucial productive and colourful gamers within the historical past of the Giants, Odell Beckham Jr. put up huge numbers in his first three seasons in blue, incomes Rookie of the 12 months honors in 2014 and getting named to the Professional Bowl in all three seasons. A knee harm slowed him down in his remaining two seasons with the Giants and so they dealt him to Cleveland in 2019. Beckham earned a Tremendous Bowl ring with the Los Angeles Rams in 2021.
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Kadarius Toney was a mercurial participant and persona the Giants couldn’t discover a match for, taking part in in simply 12 video games for Large Blue earlier than being shipped out to Kansas Metropolis for a pair of draft selections. He has earned two Tremendous Bowl rings as a member of the Chiefs.
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Thomas Lewis was a speedster out of Indiana the Giants hoped would give them a deep risk however he couldn’t keep on the sector, taking part in simply 34 video games with 15 begins over 4 seasons. His greatest 12 months was 1996 when he had 53 receptions for 694 yards and 4 touchdowns.
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The Giants received the Tremendous Bowl after the 1986 season and Mark Ingram was their first decide within the draft the subsequent season. He performed for Large Blue from 1987-1992 and was a member of the Tremendous Bowl XXV crew that upset the Buffalo Payments. In that recreation, Ingram made an important catch-and-run leading to a primary down that helped the Giants hold a key drive alive.
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Hakeem Nicks was a stable participant for the Giants from 2009-2013 after which once more in 2015 (he spent 2014 with Indianapolis). Nicks had two 1,000-yard seasons with Large Blue and was an integral a part of the Giants’ Tremendous Bowl XLVI championship crew.