The New York Giants will probably be in prime place to pick out a high extensive receiver within the first spherical of the 2024 NFL draft on Thursday evening in Detroit.
With the sixth total choose, they are going to probably get a shot at one in every of this 12 months’s three stud wideouts — Malik Nabers of LSU, Washington’s Rome Odunze, and Marvin Harrison Jr. of Ohio State.
Within the Giants’ historical past, they’ve solely used a first-round choose on a pure extensive receiver six occasions. Right here’s who they took with these picks (in no specific order).
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Ike Hilliard has the honour of being the one extensive receiver the Giants selected within the high 10 of the draft. He was a gentle performer for eight seasons with the Giants with 368 receptions for 4,630 yards and 27 touchdowns. He completed his profession with 4 seasons in Tampa Bay and has been a receivers coach in each school and the NFL for the previous 15 years.
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Probably the most productive and colourful gamers within the historical past of the Giants, Odell Beckham Jr. put up huge numbers in his first three seasons in blue, incomes Rookie of the 12 months honors in 2014 and getting named to the Professional Bowl in all three seasons. A knee damage slowed him down in his closing two seasons with the Giants and so they dealt him to Cleveland in 2019. Beckham earned a Tremendous Bowl ring with the Los Angeles Rams in 2021.
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Kadarius Toney was a mercurial participant and character the Giants couldn’t discover a match for, enjoying in simply 12 video games for Massive Blue earlier than being shipped out to Kansas Metropolis for a pair of draft decisions. He has earned two Tremendous Bowl rings as a member of the Chiefs.
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Thomas Lewis was a speedster out of Indiana the Giants hoped would give them a deep menace however he couldn’t keep on the sector, enjoying simply 34 video games with 15 begins over 4 seasons. His greatest 12 months was 1996 when he had 53 receptions for 694 yards and 4 touchdowns.
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The Giants received the Tremendous Bowl after the 1986 season and Mark Ingram was their first choose within the draft the following season. He performed for Massive Blue from 1987-1992 and was a member of the Tremendous Bowl XXV workforce that upset the Buffalo Payments. In that sport, Ingram made an important catch-and-run leading to a primary down that helped the Giants hold a key drive alive.
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Hakeem Nicks was a strong participant for the Giants from 2009-2013 after which once more in 2015 (he spent 2014 with Indianapolis). Nicks had two 1,000-yard seasons with Massive Blue and was an integral a part of the Giants’ Tremendous Bowl XLVI championship workforce.
