The New York Giants have been criticized for his or her skinny roster the previous few years, a development that can proceed until they will change minds with their play on the sphere.
In a latest listing of NFL workforce’s large receiver, tight finish, and working again expertise for the 2024 season, ESPN’s Invoice Barnwell ranked Huge Blue twenty ninth within the league.
That’s down from final yr’s rating (twenty seventh) however a notch above the No. 30 score of 2022.
Barnwell notes the lack of star working again Saquon Barkley in free company may very well be offset by the addition of high draft choose Malik Nabers, a large receiver from LSU.
Barkley is gifted however was usually injured and Nabers should 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 fairly offense. Devin Singletary had an honest 2023 season with the Texans, but it surely’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 realizing 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 method at working 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 workforce are excessive on.
Nabers joins Hyatt and Robinson — each latest Day 2 draft picks — in an eclectic, however attention-grabbing trio of younger expertise at receiver. After all, they’ve but to hit the sphere and nobody can predict how they may 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 principally backups however Johnson has the identical bodily dimensions as Waller and is an attention-grabbing add that would shock as a rookie.
