\u201cYou would like to get into those positions where outside the building you would pay a lot of money to get that surplus value but it just may not be the case this year, which is fine,\u2019\u2019 Giants general manager Joe Schoen said Tuesday. \u201cWe\u2019re gonna evaluate every position, every player and do what\u2019s best for us.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n
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Giants GM Joe Schoen speaking to the media during a press conference at the team\u2019s practice facility. Charles Wenzelberg \/ New York Post<\/p>\n
Here is where it gets tricky. If the Giants take a wide receiver at No. 5 \u2014 Carnell Tate from Ohio State is certainly inviting \u2014 that receiver, based on his rookie contract, might be the 40th highest-paid receiver in the league. If the Giants take Love, he might be the 10th highest-paid running back in the league.<\/p>\n
The task is determining if taking a player at a non-premium position is the right way to go for the Giants. Or if trading down, if possible, will create more value and give the Giants what they truly want \u2014 an extra pick in the second or third round.<\/p>\n
The Giants have seven picks. They do not own a third-round pick (sent to the Texans in the 2025 draft day trade that landed Jaxson Dart) and do not have any picks in the seventh round. They do have three picks in the sixth round.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\u201cI would always like more picks but it will be situational,\u2019\u2019 Schoen said. \u201cWe\u2019re not gonna walk away from an impact player, a good player that we\u2019re convicted on, that we like to pick up an extra pick or a couple of extra picks. If you move back three spots and there\u2019s five guys you like and you get an extra pick, absolutely. If it\u2019s a guy you\u2019re convicted on and there\u2019s a big drop-off, let\u2019s say its a corner and there\u2019s a big drop-off maybe two rounds to the next corner, you may not roll the dice in those situations and you just take the player so you don\u2019t miss out.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n
If the Giants go with Styles, he would immediately upgrade their defense. The same with Downs. Love is considered to be a special running back prospect but taking him at No. 5 is a different deal entirely. New head coach John Harbaugh has stated he wants his offense to be run-centric and Love would be the centerpiece of that attack.<\/p>\n
Schoen agreed with the premise that Love should not be valued as a typical running back.<\/p>\n
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Jeremiyah Love celebrates after scoring a touchdown during Notre Dame\u2019s blowout win over Pittsburgh at Acrisure Stadium on Nov. 15, 2025 in Pittsburgh. Getty Images<\/p>\n
\u201cCertainly an offensive weapon, he\u2019s not just a running back,\u2019\u2019 Schoen said. \u201cHe can play on third down, you can split him out, he can catch the ball, so certainly an offensive weapon.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n
That fell short of an endorsement, though, given how Schoen assessed his roster at that position.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe like our running back room now,\u2019\u2019 he said. \u201cSkat [Cam Skattebo] had a really good rookie year, Tyrone Tracy\u2019s been a 1,000 yard all-purpose guy the last two years.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n
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Schoen also mentioned Devin Singletary, Dante Miller and Eric Gray, but his case was made with Skattebo and Tracy.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ll see what happens on draft night but like the room the way it\u2019s constructed right now,\u2019\u2019 Schoen said.<\/p>\n
Schoen inherited Saquon Barkley from the previous regime, failed to get him signed to a long-term extension, put the franchise tag on him and then watched Barkley sign with the rival Eagles. <\/p>\n
Schoen did not prioritize the running back position, to be sure, and he justified that by stating he needed to upgrade the offensive line and get a quarterback on a rookie deal to fix the offense. He described where the Giants are now as \u201cin a different place.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were fifth in the league in rushing a year ago so I think mission accomplished,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n
Where will they be in 2026 and will Love be running the ball for the Giants? Stay tuned. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yes, they would. No, they might not be able to. For the \u201ctrade down\u2019\u2019 advocates who want the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":607990,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,10286,1242,593,10028,180791,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-607989","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-joe-schoen","11":"tag-new-york-giants","12":"tag-nfl","13":"tag-nfl-draft","14":"tag-nfl-draft-2026","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=607989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/607990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}