It is often a bit overblown to label an upcoming season as \u201ccrucial\u2019\u2019 or as \u201cdecisive\u2019\u2019 or the ever-popular \u201ccareer-defining\u2019\u2019 for a young player trying to make his way in the NFL.<\/p>\n
Sure, every season is important but not every season is all-important, when it comes to determining whether that player will make it in the league or fall by the wayside.<\/p>\n
After a sluggish and largely disappointing rookie season for Jalin Hyatt, it was trendy to anoint 2024 as a critical one. The skinny wide receiver did little in Year 1 to justify the Giants\u2019 belief that they acquired a steal on the second day of the 2023 NFL Draft when they traded their third-round pick (No. 89 overall) and a fourth-round pick (No. 128) to move up in the third round to No. 73 to get Hyatt, who was coming off a sensational season at Tennessee with a school-record 15 touchdown receptions, including five in one game against Alabama \u2014 another school record.<\/p>\n
Those exploits feel as if they happened a long, long time ago, as does the verbiage from general manager Joe Schoen after he made the deal for Hyatt: \u201cIt was a good player that we liked that was kind of sticking out on our board. He ran 4.3 and some change, and you could feel his speed on film. I mean, that\u2019s legit.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It is often a bit overblown to label an upcoming season as \u201ccrucial\u2019\u2019 or as \u201cdecisive\u2019\u2019 or the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":175350,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2067],"tags":[200,7,519,7194,16744,201,1917,56,2321,2469,6,7195,9,3248],"class_list":{"0":"post-175349","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-giants","8":"tag-brian-daboll","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-giants","11":"tag-inside-the-giants","12":"tag-jalin-hyatt","13":"tag-joe-schoen","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-giants","16":"tag-newyork","17":"tag-newyorkgiants","18":"tag-nfl","19":"tag-post-sports-newsletters","20":"tag-sports","21":"tag-sports-plus"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114783195498825739","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175349","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=175349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}