D
New York Giants
The Giants bet the future on Daniels. The board says D.
by jkase ·
2024 NFL Draft
· 26 picks
· 14 steals
· 5 reaches
Somewhere a general manager is explaining how Olumuyiwa Fashanu got past him. The Giants do not have to explain a thing at the 105th overall pick.
The Casey reach is the anchor dragging on the value grade. The trade table is where this weekend went wrong.
Jayden Daniels is the bet, and the class will be judged on how it pays off.
Bottom line, they will need several of these picks to beat their grades just to break even.
Pick-by-Pick
In the 6th pick they get their quarterback of the future. A real need, handled.
In pick 13 they get juice off the edge at fair value. A clean fit for the roster.
In Round 1, Pick 15 they get protection for the quarterback. The biggest hole, addressed.
In the 16th pick they get a lockdown presence outside.
A straight-up fair deal on Quinyon Mitchell at No. 17, value and slot in agreement. It fills a real need, too.
Troy Franklin in slot 39 is a bargain the rest of the room will envy. A glaring weakness, addressed head on.
Taking Chop Robinson in the 47th overall pick is close to grand larceny; an edge rusher that good had no business lasting this long. Another box on the needs board, quietly ticked.
Ladd McConkey in pick No. 70 should not have been possible, and that is the whole point. They walked in needing this and walked out with it.
Steal is underselling it; J.J. McCarthy at pick 71 is a heist with the alarm still ringing. A sensible fit that makes the depth chart a little sturdier.
Troy Fautanu at the Round 3 slot is the steal of the weekend, a first-round talent at a bargain-bin price. Top of the wish list, and they did not leave without it.
Kris Jenkins at the Round 3 slot is a first-round grade at a bargain-bin price, no notes. One more legitimate question on the roster, answered.
Circle this one: Braden Fiske at slot 75 is a fall that decides a draft. It also answers one of the loudest questions on the roster.
A clean, defensible pick in pick No. 90 with a little surplus value in Dadrion Taylor-Demerson. The one spot they could not leave alone, and did not.
A top-tier offensive lineman at a bargain, Olumuyiwa Fashanu in No. 105, plain and simple. A must-fix position, and they treated it like one.
Trey Benson slipping to the 108th pick is the kind of luck good rooms make for themselves. It plugs a real leak on the depth chart.
A quiet steal in the 110th overall pick: Brenden Rice for less than the market said. The biggest hole on the depth chart just got a whole lot smaller.
Somehow Khyree Jackson was still sitting there in pick 112, and they pounced on premier cornerback value. The roster fit checks out.
They stopped a slide they were happy to see, landing Cole Bishop in Round 4, Pick 23. Better still, it is exactly the hole they had to fill.
They jumped the gun on Brennan Jackson, taking him earlier than his grade liked. A sensible fit for a spot that needed help.
A reach for AJ Barner in pick No. 148; a little patience would have been rewarded. It shores up a spot that genuinely needed the help.
Cody Schrader at the Round 5 slot is neither steal nor reach, just the going rate. A need, and now a little less of one.
Anthony Gould at the 185th pick is daylight robbery; nobody expected him to last. It answers the question that was keeping the coaches up at night.
A big swing on Anim Dankwah at pick 252, well ahead of any board in the building. That was the need underlined and circled, and now it is checked off.
Aaron Casey at the 253rd overall pick is an overdraft of the loud, memorable kind. It adds depth where they could use a little.
They robbed the room for Luke McCaffrey here, a fall nobody at the table saw coming. This was priority one on the needs board, and now it is handled.
Value said wait; Taulia Tagovailoa in Round 7, Pick 39 says they were not listening. It patches a soft spot without any drama.