B
New York Giants
Larceny in the 143rd overall pick lands the Giants a B, Abrams-Draine and all.
by enefel ·
2024 NFL Draft
· 10 picks
· 4 steals
· 0 reaches
The rest of the league will want that one back. Kris Abrams-Draine tumbling to the Giants in pick No. 143 is a gift they did not have to think twice about. A sturdy weekend that grades out a B.
If this class has a fault line, it runs straight through interior defensive lineman. The trades cost them a sliver of value they did not need to spend.
They left with safety solved and the rest of the wish list mostly ticked off. It is a bet on later, and a defensible one for a team playing the long game.
A tidy weekend of work that should hold up just fine.
Pick-by-Pick
In pick 16 they get a building block for the line at fair value. The biggest hole, addressed.
Quietly one of the better values of the day, Tyler Nubin at Round 2, Pick 14. It answers the question that was keeping the coaches up at night.
Fair-plus on J.J. McCarthy, a quiet win that adds up over a draft. A sensible fit for a spot that needed help.
Jeremiah Trotter Jr. is a better player than the Round 3 slot suggests; smart patience, rewarded. Useful depth more than a marquee fix.
Christian Haynes in No. 78 is fair value, right on his grade. The biggest hole on the depth chart just got a whole lot smaller.
Jaden Hicks at the 107th pick is neither steal nor reach, just the going rate. A must-fix position, and they treated it like one.
A market-rate running back, with the board and the slot shaking hands on Dillon Johnson. It plugs a real leak on the depth chart.
They barely believed it either: Kris Abrams-Draine still on the board at slot 143. A need, and now a little less of one.
Good price on Javon Baker in slot 185, a hair ahead of his grade with no real quibbles. The one spot they could not leave alone, and did not.
Good things come to war rooms that wait, and Michael Barrett at pick No. 193 is the proof. A luxury on a unit that was already in good shape.