The New York Giants have been criticized for his or her skinny roster the previous few years, a development that can proceed until they’ll change minds with their play on the sector.
In a current checklist of NFL workforce’s broad 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 12 months’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 might be offset by the addition of prime draft choose Malik Nabers, a large receiver from LSU.
Barkley is proficient however was typically injured and Nabers should excel for this swap to work out for the Giants.
If Nabers is something wanting spectacular as a rookie, this gained’t be a reasonably offense. Devin Singletary had an honest 2023 season with the Texans, however it’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 menace, however he’s in all probability not an every-down receiver in higher offenses. I don’t know why Allen Robinson remains 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 figuring out the place to line up earlier than the snap in 12 months 2.
Some readability on this evaluation. The Giants are backfilling the lack of Barkley with a committee strategy at working again. Singletary is the highest again within the rotation in the intervening time, however there are others (Eric Grey and rookie Tyrone Tracy), who the workforce are excessive on.
Nabers joins Hyatt and Robinson — each current Day 2 draft picks — in an eclectic, however attention-grabbing trio of younger expertise at receiver. In fact, they’ve but to hit the sector 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 mainly backups however Johnson has the identical bodily dimensions as Waller and is an attention-grabbing add that might shock as a rookie.
