{"id":88233,"date":"2026-01-03T17:18:30","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T17:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/88233\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T17:18:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T17:18:30","slug":"how-trio-of-major-giants-draft-busts-could-revive-careers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/88233\/","title":{"rendered":"How trio of major Giants draft busts could revive careers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Deonte Banks cradled two game balls under his arms as the Giants locker room <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/12\/29\/sports\/deonte-banks-teammates-were-fired-up-after-he-left-stamp-on-giants-win\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">hooted and hollered in recognition of his taste of success<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tAccess the Giants like never before\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"promo__subhead body\">\n\t\tGet texts from Paul Schwartz with all the latest Giants news and insights, exclusive to Sports+ subscribers.\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/account\/settings\/texts\/\" class=\"promo__button button button--solid t-color-white\" data-ga-event=\"&#010;&#009;&#009;&#009;&#009;{&quot;category&quot;:&quot;Inline Promo Module Sports Plus&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:&quot;Access the Giants like never before | Get texts from Paul Schwa | SIGN UP NOW&quot;,&quot;label&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/nypost.com\\\/2026\\\/01\\\/02\\\/sports\\\/how-trio-of-major-giants-draft-busts-could-revive-careers\\\/&quot;}&#009;&#009;&#009;&#009;\" data-ga4-event=\"&#010;&#009;&#009;&#009;{&quot;event_name&quot;:&quot;ux_engagement&quot;,&quot;source_unit&quot;:&quot;Inline Promo Module Sports Plus&quot;,&quot;source_position&quot;:&quot;Access the Giants like never before | Get texts from Paul Schwa | SIGN UP NOW&quot;}&#009;&#009;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\tSIGN UP NOW\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The much-maligned cornerback had just responded to letting up a touchdown by <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/12\/28\/sports\/deonte-banks-picks-inopportune-time-for-highlight-reel-moment-as-giant-with-kick-return-touchdown\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">returning a kickoff 95 yards for a touchdown<\/a> in last week\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/12\/28\/sports\/giants-severely-hurt-chances-at-no-1-overall-draft-pick-by-beating-raiders-in-tank-bowl\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">win against the Raiders<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>With the flash of explosive athleticism, a question was raised: Is it possible that Banks still could turn into a solid NFL player? <\/p>\n<p>Is that why the Giants continue to force him onto the field despite benchings, opposing quarterbacks singling him out for completions and lapses in effort? \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Deonte Banks cradled two game balls under his arms as the Giants locker room hooted and hollered in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88234,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[21019,21020,12144,9,2683,11,10,22,319,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-88233","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-deonte-banks","9":"tag-evan-neal","10":"tag-jalin-hyatt","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-giants","13":"tag-new-york-headlines","14":"tag-new-york-news","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-sports-plus"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88233","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=88233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}