The New York Giants misplaced security and workforce captain, Julian Love, to the Seattle Seahawks final offseason. They adopted that up by shedding security and workforce captain, Xavier McKinney, to the Inexperienced Bay Packers this offseason.
These departures have left the workforce extremely skinny on the place.
ESPN’s Invoice Barnwell just lately broke down the place and declared it a “obvious subject” for the Giants.
“I’d be shocked in the event that they didn’t benefit from the market and add not less than one veteran security,” Barnwell stated. “Justin Simmons, Quandre Diggs, Marcus Maye, Tashaun Gipson and Julian Blackmon are all free brokers. . . Including a type of guys on a one-year deal would carry a veteran into the defensive backs room and assist a workforce that’s in any other case set to expire a younger secondary.”
These over at Professional Soccer Focus concur and imagine the Giants are the perfect touchdown spot at no cost agent security Julian Blackmon.
Blackmon began for 2 seasons in school at cornerback, and he has logged greater than 350 slot snaps since 2022. In Gus Bradley’s Cowl 3-heavy scheme, Blackmon spent loads of time as a single-high security. Nearly half of his snaps have been down within the field in 2023. Blackmon seems to be a greater match close to the road of scrimmage attributable to his common restoration velocity, however his plus lateral motion and stable ball expertise from his days as a cornerback present up extra typically when nearer to the road of scrimmage. Blackmon’s 30 defensive stops in 2023 have been greater than his profession complete earlier than this season, and he missed a career-low 7.4% of sort out alternatives.
The 25-year-old Blackmon was a third-round choose of the Indianapolis Colts within the 2020 NFL draft. He’s appeared in 50 profession video games (46 begins), recording 214 tackles (163 solo, 12 for a loss), two pressured fumbles, two QB hits, one sack, 17 passes defensed, seven interceptions and one landing.
In 2023, Blackmon earned an general PFF grade of 68.3.
If the Giants are concerned with Blackmon, they received’t be alone. The Colts just lately re-engaged contract talks with the free agent security.