Spoiler alert: either team comes from the defensive side of the ball.
While there’s been a lot of talk about what the New York Giants will or won’t do in the first round of this year’s draft, let’s not say that this team will be looking to make five more picks to fill some of their holes going forward. .
And since there are questions about who the Giants will select in the first round, the same questions can be asked in the next rounds.
Pro Football Focus has some ideas for the Giants on Days 2 and 3 that make sense. On the second day, the popular investigative site called on the Giants to protect USC Calen Bullock, about whom analyst Dalton Wasserman wrote:
“The Giants have lost their remarkable free agent Xavier McKinney to update him with USC defensive back Calen Bullock. Bullock doesn’t provide much help in the running game, however, he is the most productive protection in singles in the most sensitive part of the draft. His style of play is very similar to McKinney’s, and he would have a chance to get started at the Giants’ high-altitude school without delay. “
Before we move on to the Day 3 selection, let’s discuss the Day 2 selection. We agree that the Giants can safely use the depths, but don’t Dane Belton, who last year, in limited snapshots, showed off his ability to move. the ball. Belton, who is entering his third season, is expected to be in contention for a starting job.
For the third day, Gordon McGuiness affiliates the Giants with northern Iowa defensive lineman Khristian Boyd, about whom he wrote:
Saving his most productive season for last in northern Iowa, Boyd has shown great sleight of hand to pass along with the previous defensive prowess shown to him in his school career. He finished 2023 with 24 tackles, resulting in a defensive save and 40 quarterbacks making 365 passes.
There’s no doubt the Giants can use intensity on the defensive line, especially intensity capable of chasing the quarterback. The Giants lost some of that firepower when they traded Leonard Williams.
If they can upgrade even some of that production up front, that would not only make it easier to run for passes, but it might be more suitable if defensive coordinator Shane Bowen looks to get behind the quarterback with the front seven opposed to the exotic blitz the team has managed the past two seasons under Wink Martindale.