{"id":227385,"date":"2026-05-11T16:51:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T16:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/227385\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T16:51:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T16:51:09","slug":"ny-giants-rejected-trio-of-picks-to-select-cb-colton-hood-at-no-37","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/227385\/","title":{"rendered":"NY Giants rejected trio of picks to select CB Colton Hood at No. 37"},"content":{"rendered":"

The New York Giants \u201chad a few options\u201d to move back from No. 37 in the 2026 NFL Draft, and were willing to move down had Tennessee cornerback Colton Hood not been available to them, GM Joe Schoen said in Part 2 of the \u2018Giants Life\u2019 draft video<\/a> on the team\u2019s website.<\/p>\n

According to Schoen\u2019s discussion with head coach John Harbaugh, the Giants had offers to move back from the Cincinnati Bengals (pick No. 41) and New Orleans Saints (pick No. 42) and could have gotten two fourth-round picks and a fifth-round pick to drop a few spots in the draft. Schoen also references the possibility of getting \u201c118, 128, 157\u201d in a trade. That would have been the Detroit Lions, who had pick No. 50 in Round 2 along with the three aforementioned picks. The Lions eventually traded 128 to move up with the New York Jets.<\/p>\n

Schoen said it was \u201can easy decision for us\u201d to select Hood rather than move down.<\/p>\n

Harbaugh pushed the Malachi Fields deal<\/p>\n

The other takeaway is that Harbaugh was a driving force behind the Giants giving up picks 105, 145, and a 2027 fourth-round pick to get into the third round and select wide receiver Malachi Fields at No. 74.<\/p>\n

Harbaugh is heard saying to Schoen \u201ctry to figure out a way to get back up and get Fields \u2026 would it be worth it?\u201d<\/p>\n

The Cleveland Browns were a willing trade partner after Schoen was rejected by several teams, and teh Giants decided it was.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were all very certain that he was not going to be there\u201d in Round 4 when the Giants were next scheduled to pick, Harbaugh said.<\/p>\n

Schoen called the deal \u201creally goo0d value for a player that we coveted.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York Giants \u201chad a few options\u201d to move back from No. 37 in the 2026 NFL…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227386,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,23065,8144,11,10],"class_list":["post-227385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-giants-draft","tag-new-york-giants-news","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}