The New York Giants made six choices within the 2024 NFL draft, beginning with LSU large receiver Malik Nabers in Spherical 1.
Nabers figures to comply with within the footsteps of the the opposite nice wideouts to return out of Baton Rouge lately comparable to Odell Beckham Jr., Ja’Marr Chase, and Justin Jefferson.
However the Giants might have came upon one other productive participant of their fifth-round choice, Purdue operating again Tyrone Tracy Jr., whom TouchdownWire’s Doug Farrar calls the sleeper of this Giants’ draft class.
With Saquon Barkley out of the image, the Giants had a pre-draft operating again rotation of Devin Singletary, 2023 fifth-round decide Eric Grey, and a bunch of “meh” after that. Which implies that anybody coming in from the draft would have a chance past the preseason.
Enter Purdue operating again Tyrone Tracy Jr., who at 5′ 11⅛” and 209 kilos, totaled 714 yards, eight touchdowns, 46 compelled missed tackles, 14 carries of 15 or extra yards, and 36 first downs on simply 114 carries. That put Tracy with a yards per carry common of 6.3 — one other arbiter of his big-play potential and skill to run with energy. Tracy may also catch the ball. In truth, earlier than he was a operating again at Purdue, he was a receiver at Iowa, and he truly made large performs in that rubbish fireplace of an offense. Not dangerous for a man who was there with the 166th general decide within the fifth spherical.
Tracy may have a chance to play a number of roles for the Giants on offense and particular groups. The largest plus, nonetheless, is his versatility as a receiver, which hasn’t gotten previous head coach Brian Daboll.
“He’s a former receiver. When it comes to yards per carry, he’s been fairly good,” Daboll mentioned. “He’s an athlete who has performed receiver after which performed operating again and has some good manufacturing. We’ll throw him within the combine. Whether or not that’s within the kickoff return recreation or whether or not that’s at operating again or the receiving a part of it, we’ve obtained to do a superb job of getting him in right here and seeing the place he’s at after which making an attempt to suit him into the issues that he can do effectively.”
Within the post-Saquon Barley age, the Giants may use some fast solutions of their backfield. It seems like they could have discovered one.
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