The New York Giants have several new receivers to incorporate into coordinator Matt Nagy\u2019s offense in 2026, and how all of the pieces fit remains to be seen.<\/p>\n
One of those new receivers, veteran Darnell Mooney, isn\u2019t worried about the specifics. He already knows what his job entails.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy role is to make plays and dominate,\u201d Mooney said after Thursday\u2019s OTA practice.<\/p>\n
The 28-year-old Mooney has done that at times during his six-year NFL career. He had 81 receptions for 1,055 yards for the Chicago Bears in 2021. He had 64 receptions for 992 yards with career highs in touchdowns (5) and yards per catch (15.5) for the Atlanta Falcons in 2024.<\/p>\n
In his career, he has 309 receptions (51.5 per year) for 4,028 yards (671.0 per year).<\/p>\n
Coming off a down year with the Falcons (32 catches, 443 yards), Mooney signed a one-year, $3 million contract with the Giants.<\/p>\n
Mooney\u2019s best has been better than Darius Slayton\u2019s best. He could take Slayton\u2019s job, or he could join Slayton in the lineup if Malik Nabers is not ready to begin the season.<\/p>\n
Mooney was a fifth-round pick by the Bears in 2020, when Nagy was the head coach. His 1,000-yard season came while playing for Nagy in 2021. Mooney admitted that success and familiarity are part of the reason he signed with the Giants.<\/p>\n
\u201cFamiliarity with (offensive coordinator) Coach (Matt) Nagy. Not something I have to learn within the offense, a new offense. I can just run my route and just the familiarity with that. And then that was top-notch right there,\u201d Mooney said. \u201cThat was what I\u2019ve seen. And I felt like when I\u2019m doing something, when I\u2019m picking, it was more scheme, schematically fit for me. That was the biggest goal right there.\u201d<\/p>\n
Nagy\u2019s playbook, likely with input from head coach John Harbaugh, quarterbacks coach Brian Callahan, and senior assistant Greg Roman, has \u201cexpanded a lot,\u201d according to Mooney.<\/p>\n
Mooney didn\u2019t want to assess his career thus far.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m usually in the moment. I\u2019m usually here where I\u2019m at,\u201d Mooney said. \u201cLike I said when you asked me my role, it\u2019s to dominate and make plays. I feel like I\u2019m getting better and better and wiser within football in itself, so feeling good with that.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Giants are simply hoping Mooney adds a successful new chapter to that career in 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York Giants have several new receivers to incorporate into coordinator Matt Nagy\u2019s offense in 2026, and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":662114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[100764,3267,349,99],"class_list":["post-662113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-new-york-giants-transcripts","tag-new-york-giants-news","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=662113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/662114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}