We’re 1 / 4 by means of the 2024 season and the New York Giants sit on their own in final place within the NFC East with a 1-3 file.
New York and three different groups (Carolina Panthers, Los Angeles Rams and Arizona Cardinals) are on the backside of the NFC. The Giants are literally final (sixteenth) within the NFC as they’ve a 0-3 convention file. At this tempo, they’ll haven’t any downside touchdown their participant of selection within the 2025 NFL draft.
If the season ended right this moment, they’d have the third total choice within the draft.
Many are pointing to the parting of the methods with star operating again Saquon Barkley as a contributing issue they usually wouldn’t be solely flawed.
The Giants are thirtieth within the NFL in dashing, averaging 85.7 yards per sport. Their scoring output (15.0 PPG, twenty ninth) is definitely decrease than final season’s (15.6).
Quarterback Daniel Jones, who famously makes use of his legs to make performs, has rushed solely 23 instances for 70 yards (3.0 YPC) this season. In his profession, Jones has averaged 34.3 dashing yards per sport and 5.6 yards per try.
They have been twenty ninth in whole offense final 12 months (280.0 YPG) and are up barely to twenty second (296.3) this 12 months. A great portion of that rise could be attributed to the addition of rookie huge receiver Malik Nabers.
There are some positives, nonetheless. Huge Blue is thirteenth in whole protection –14th towards the cross and sixteenth versus the run. The Giants are eighth in pink zone protection and seventeenth on offense.
Nabers leads the NFL in receptions (35) and is second to Houston’s Nico Collins in receiving yards (386).
Nabers has been focused 52 instances this season, greater than every other participant within the NFL by means of 4 weeks. His 52 targets make up 38.2 p.c of the Giants’ goal share this 12 months.
Wan’Dale Robinson is second with 38 targets and Darius Slayton has 15.
What’s shocking is that Jalin Hyatt, who was featured nearly each day in coaching camp because the staff’s high deep risk, has been focused simply 3 times this season and has no receptions.
Devin Singletary has been getting the lion’s share of the touches out of the backfield. By means of 4 video games, Singletary has gotten the ball on 56 of the Giants’ 72 operating performs this 12 months. A lot for the running-back-by-committee strategy.
The Giants’ tight ends have been relegated to primarily blocking this 12 months. Rookie Theo Johnson has three catches for 37 yards and Daniel Berlinger has two for 20.
On protection, Micah McFadden, who has performed in simply three of the primary 4 video games, leads the staff in whole tackles with 27. They solely have one interception this season and that was by rookie linebacker Darius Muasau.
The staff sack lead doesn’t belong to both of the Giants’ high-profile cross rushers (Brian Burns and Kayvon Thibodeaux) however to defensive lineman Dexter Lawrence and security Jason Pinnock, who’ve three every.
On particular groups, the Giants are in the course of the pack return-wise, averaging 24.4 yards on kickoffs and 10.3 yards per punt return.
88 p.c of the Giants’ kickoffs have gone for touchbacks. The one which was returned went for 35 yards.
Their punt protection has been pretty stable, permitting 8.86 yards per return on seven makes an attempt with a protracted of 24.
Only a facet word: Security Xavier McKinney, who left the Giants this previous offseason by way of free company to signal with the Inexperienced Bay Packers, leads the NFL in interceptions with 4.