Thursday is the deadline of the NFL so that the teams formally collect the fifth year in their first round of the rookies of the Draft of 2022, and although only three years ago the New York giants of New York really undermine this one.
The giants will be one of the two teams that do not opt for a first round selection that they written, and the only team that does not opt for a selection among the 10 best. The offensive Tackle Evan Neal was no tasks. 7 General election, and has an absolute disaster since it arrived. A decent career blocker, Neal has been a total responsibility in the air game that ends with a degree of protection of 49.6 of the professional football approach in 2024.
This should have been a draft franchise for giants. With two selections in the Top 10, it was an opportunity to shape both sides of the ball with impact, franchise players and the turn releasing a lot of money in free agency to repair their holes. Insead, the team stays with a guy when leaving, and another that is the team tried To justify, but he has also fought.
That other player is Kayvon Thibodeaux. The Oregon edge corridor was tasks with the No. 5 Choose the draft, and has now been replaced fundamentally in the initial alignment, relegated to a situational passes corridor. Thibodeaux had problems at the beginning of his career, which led the giants to the exchange of Brian Burns. Burns’s addition would open things for Thibodeux, but in 2024 he only achieved 38 pressures, he held the 47th position in the NFL.
Now with the additional of Abdul Carter with the No. 3 Choose in 2025 is an admission that the team does not tide tibodeux as part of its long -term plans, despite collecting their option and saying “you can never have too many passes runners.” Of course, that is true, but when the commercial capital has invested, a large amount of salary limit, and now a general selection No. 3 of a few years after a Top -5 type, it is a sign that things are not going well.
To be fair, Thibodeaux is not terrible. It is a middle passes corridor that would probably be coveted in the market opened by several equipment if they were available. The problem is that it is nowhere near the other passes runners of that kind of 2022 with Aidan Hutchinson and Travon Walker emerging as two of the best young runners of young passes in the NFL.
Of course, there is a great element of this that benefits from retrospective. The two teams from the first round of the giants were almost universally loved, which makes this a matter of whether players were the error in this, or the inability of the giants to develop them. If only one of these elections really fails, it would be one thing, but both feeling endemic.
What could giants have done? Perhaps the most important: what shoulder Have you done it? If we look back in that class, there is a clear pivot point that everything would have changed.
If the giants were committed to an offensive Tackle, they would have beans of beans baking any of the other types on the board on the No. 5. IKEM EKWONU, who Carolina Tok with Selection No. 6 is already one of the best tacle of the Road Classification League. In addition, its pass blocking, the mass steps last season with Dave channels as a chief coach.
Perhaps more than one lady was Charles Cross, who Seattle Tok at number 9. Cross has become a very solid left Tackle, where it is a good passenger blocker and an advantage in the race game. There are no unicorn features, but a guy with which Seahawks can count during the next decade.
From there, giants should have used the no. 7 Choose Kyle Hamilton security. Hamilton is already a Top 3 security in the NFL, and you can argue that it is the best in the NFL. The Ravens took him to number 15 that draft was stupid, because the teams above them made bad decisions. Purely at a talent level, Hamilton was projected as a selection of the 5 best in that class, and he is a difference manufacturer.
This has a blow effect. If the giants resolved their security position with Hamilton, they would like to spend a second round selection in Tyler Ninin in 2024, or Potntiaty still writes Nubin, but save a Warchest of Free Agency Money In Signal.
Draft’s bad teams simply do not hurt in isolation, but shape everything that a franchise does. Unfortunately, the giants wasted the opportunity to take two players who changed the game in 2022, and are now in the hive of separating from both. Meanwhile, we could be doing this again next year, because in 2023 the gigiants Tok Corne Banks, who also have terrible bone.
The story continues to repeat for New York, and in the possible sausage form.