The New York Giants made six choices within the 2024 NFL draft, beginning with LSU extensive receiver Malik Nabers in Spherical 1.
Nabers figures to comply with within the footsteps of the the opposite nice wideouts to come back out of Baton Rouge lately corresponding to Odell Beckham Jr., Ja’Marr Chase, and Justin Jefferson.
However the Giants might have came upon one other productive participant of their fifth-round choice, Purdue working again Tyrone Tracy Jr., whom TouchdownWire’s Doug Farrar calls the sleeper of this Giants’ draft class.
With Saquon Barkley out of the image, the Giants had a pre-draft working again rotation of Devin Singletary, 2023 fifth-round decide Eric Grey, and a bunch of “meh” after that. Which signifies that anybody coming in from the draft would have a chance past the preseason.
Enter Purdue working again Tyrone Tracy Jr., who at 5′ 11⅛” and 209 kilos, totaled 714 yards, eight touchdowns, 46 pressured missed tackles, 14 carries of 15 or extra yards, and 36 first downs on simply 114 carries. That put Tracy with a yards per carry common of 6.3 — one other arbiter of his big-play potential and skill to run with energy. Tracy also can catch the ball. In reality, earlier than he was a working again at Purdue, he was a receiver at Iowa, and he really made huge performs in that rubbish fireplace of an offense. Not dangerous for a man who was there with the 166th general decide within the fifth spherical.
Tracy may have a chance to play a number of roles for the Giants on offense and particular groups. The largest plus, nevertheless, is his versatility as a receiver, which hasn’t gotten previous head coach Brian Daboll.
“He’s a former receiver. When it comes to yards per carry, he’s been fairly good,” Daboll stated. “He’s an athlete who has performed receiver after which performed working again and has some good manufacturing. We’ll throw him within the combine. Whether or not that’s within the kickoff return recreation or whether or not that’s at working again or the receiving a part of it, we’ve acquired to do a superb job of getting him in right here and seeing the place he’s at after which attempting to suit him into the issues that he can do effectively.”
Within the post-Saquon Barley age, the Giants might use some speedy solutions of their backfield. It appears like they could have discovered one.
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