Matt Citak: Upon reflection, there seems to be a clear characteristic that can be used to describe each of the team’s picks \u2013 toughness. We all witnessed Abdul Carter’s toughness during Penn State’s College Football Playoff run, where the talented edge rusher battled through injury and was still able to wreak havoc on Notre Dame with a sack and two tackles for loss in the semifinal. Jaxson Dart’s toughness was on full display throughout his time at Ole Miss, as well, as the young quarterback had a tendency to take off with the football and absorb a good number of hits, rather than sliding to avoid contact.<\/p>\n
Th grit attribute extends to the Giants’ picks on Days 2 and 3. Here are quotes from over the weekend.<\/p>\n
Third-round pick Darius Alexander: “I love taking my opponents will and just watching them go to the sideline\u2026”<\/p>\n
Fourth-round pick Cam Skattebo: “Physicality is definitely contagious. If someone gets ran over, it hypes the other guys up and it gets them going. I’m going to continue to bring that and hopefully it feeds off on to my teammates.”<\/p>\n
Fifth-round pick Marcus Mbow: “Putting people on the ground, winning reps, demoralizing people. It’s always fun. It’s definitely part of the reason I love the game.”<\/p>\n
Seventh-round pick Thomas Fidone II: “Very physical. I’m a physical player, also a very competitive player.”<\/p>\n
The Giants went into the 2025 NFL Draft looking for players with a certain level of edge and swagger. This draft class represents a focus on bringing in players with some nastiness to them, and let me be clear, I mean that in the best way possible. But don’t take it from me. Here is what head coach Brian Daboll had to say following the conclusion of the draft.<\/p>\n
“Toughness all the way through the draft was something that we have talked about, both mental and physical,” Daboll said Saturday night.<\/p>\n
The current roster looks improved on paper, but we won’t know that for sure until the regular season actually begins. But one thing I can say with some certainty right now is that the 2025 Giants are forming a new identity, and it revolves around being a tough, physical team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Matt Citak: Upon reflection, there seems to be a clear characteristic that can be used to describe each…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10003,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2067],"tags":[6163,7,519,347,1917,56,2321,2469,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-10002","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-giants","8":"tag-cover-3","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-giants","11":"tag-homepage","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-giants","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkgiants","16":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114421861277599080","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}