Big Blue View round table: What is your ideal Giants draft?
Our contributors offer their thoughts on what they would most like to see the Giants do this weekend
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What is the best way for the New York Giants to approach the 2021 NFL Draft? Everyone who follows the Giants has an idea what their own ideal draft scenario would be. In response to a reader question, I shared my favorite scenarios recently.
it’s only fair that the other contributors here at Big Blue View get a chance to express their feelings on this topic. So, that’s what we did in this weeks’ Big Blue View Round Table.
Top-11 WR Rankings/Analysis
Happy draft week, everyone! I began this series by releasing individual prospect breakdowns (you can find them under my previous fanposts), but I called an audible and decided to publish the rest of my rankings all at once. Here they are!
1) Ja Marr Chase, LSU
Strengths:
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Hands: Strong, reliable hands. Makes an occasional bobble, but primarily catches the ball with his hands. Extremely strong at the catch point.
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Route running: Comfortable saying that he could run every route from any position on the field. Solid movement and route-running skills, but nothing to swoon over.
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And the Giants first selection in the 2021 draft is. By TarkentonToJones on Apr 25, 2021, 3:28pm EDT +
Here s a little game you can play on draft day: Guess the Giants first draft pick in as few choices as possible. To be exact, here are the rules:
- You start with 10 points and the goal is to preserve as many of those points as possible.
- List as many possible first picks as you want, but subtract 2 points for every incorrect pick.
- You lose if your score goes down to zero or a negative number, or if your picks do not include the player the Giants actually pick.
Originally posted on Sportsnaut | By Vincent Frank | Last updated 4/22/21
It’s somewhat surprising to see a team this active ahead of the NFL Draft. Over the past two days alone, the San Francisco 49ers have added running back Wayne Gallman as well as defensive linemen Arden Key and Maurice Hurst in free agency.
Gallman comes over to the 49ers after excelling as Saquon Barkley’s injury replacement with the New York Giants a season ago. The former mid-round pick from Clemson recorded nearly 800 total yards at a clip of 4.7 yards per rush. He’ll join a stacked backfield that includes Raheem Mostert and Jeff Wilson.
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There is a perception, however true or untrue it is, that a defining trait of the Howie Roseman era is that Roseman thinks he’s smarter than everyone. Another defining trait that is less in question is that his drafts have overall been poor. So what if Howie Roseman outsmarted everyone in the draft by doing something that sounds really stupid?
In 2007, Doug Drinen at Pro Football Reference theorized that if a team didn’t do any actual scouting for the draft, they wouldn’t suffer greatly for it.
I’d like to suggest that at this point the amount of freely-available information about the draft is so mountainous that, if you believe there is wisdom in crowds, it’s not completely insane to believe that compiling all this public information in an intelligent way could constitute a reasonable substitute for a scouting department. In other words, the internet and a bunch of draft publications (maybe even Street & Smith’s!) might be your TV.