here<\/a>], but this is the relevant section:<\/p>\nThey [the Giants] are also who I had at 15.<\/p>\n
And I think the only reason I kind of gave them the slight edge is that, I know there\u2019s a lot of questions with Malik Nabers\u2019 health. But … maybe he is healthy and does look like himself, he is at least better, not significantly better, than Terry McLaurin. But he [Nabers] does give you, I think, more of a pillar.<\/p>\n
And then to me, Darius Slayton is a better number two receiver than anybody that Washington has. I would even say, Isaiah likely, and between him and [tight end] Chig Okonkwo, I think Likely is a better player. The skill [position] Talent is a little bit better.<\/p>\n
This is a team where running back room concerns are huge just because of like Cam Skattebo\u2019s health. I think he\u2019s a cool player, but we just don\u2019t know how healthy he\u2019s going to be. And then Tyrone Tracy is kind of just an okay role player.\u201d<\/p>\n
I\u2019m going to push back on the notion that the Giants\u2019 offensive skill position players are bad.<\/p>\n
I wouldn\u2019t go nearly so far as to say that they\u2019re great, even with a healthy Malik Nabers, but I would instead say that this is, collectively, a \u201cboom or bust\u201d group. There is a pretty wide array of potential outcomes in how the Giants\u2019 skill position players could perform this year.<\/p>\n
Malik Nabers could return to full health early on this year be the player we thought he was going to be last year.Darius Slayton can develop the same kind of rapport with Jaxson Dart as he did Daniel Jones.Darnell Mooney can exceed the form he showed in 2021 and 2024 with better quarterback play than Mitchel Trubisky, Kirk Cousins, and Michael Penix.Calvin Austin III can become a more consistent deep threat than he was with Justin Fields, and the ghosts of Russell Wilson and Aaron Rodgers throwing him the ball.Malachi Fields can build upon the flashes we saw at Notre Dame and the Senior Bowl and emerge as a legitimate X receiver for the Giants.Odell Beckham Jr. and\/or JuJu Smith-Schuster can at turn the clock back and be reliable veteran options who also provide the occasional big play.Isaiah Likely can emerge from Mark Andrews\u2019 shadow and become a top receiving tight end with Dart.Theo Johnson can cut down on the drops consistently show the dominance he flashed with Jameis Winston last year.Cam Skattebo can return at 100 percent and pick up where he left off.Tyrone Tracy can string together his third 1,000-yard season as a versatile weapon out of the backfield.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s highly unlikely that all of those scenarios work out the way the Giants are hoping. But if 6 or 7 of those come up positive for the Giants, I think they have the potential to surprise some people this year. Ideally, enough goes right for the Giants to be able to put up points without Dart feeling like he needs to will the team down the field. If that happens and the defense finally plays up to its talent level, the Giants could be a team that nobody wants to play in November and December.<\/p>\n
Of course, each of those players has the real possibility of a bad outcome as well.<\/p>\n
Nabers might not be \u201chimself\u201d until 2027. Slayton may show that he probably should have followed Jones to Indianapolis. Beckham and Smith-Schuster might be done and cut. Mooney and Austin III could be the JAGs we thought they were, and so on.<\/p>\n
In that case, the Giants could struggle to keep up with other teams. That, in turn, could drive Dart to once again take the kinds of risks that got him labeled \u201creckless\u201d last year.<\/p>\n
In all likelihood, the offensive skill positions will likely come out somewhere in the middle of those outcomes. We could even see the full range of outcomes over the course of the year, where favorable matchups, great gameplans, or player development lead to offensive explosions.<\/p>\n
…Or the inverse leading to frustratingly quiet games.<\/p>\n
We will, of course, find out in due time. My hope is that the offense comes together quickly enough that personnel concerns prove moot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Quarterback Jaxson Dart is the New York Giants most important player. I won\u2019t spoil what Ed has to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":733294,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[25565,349,99],"class_list":["post-733293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-new-york-giants-roster","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733293","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=733293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/733294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=733293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=733293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=733293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}