Mock Draft 1.0<\/a>. Rather than build around Dart, he opts to add to the Giants\u2019 secondary with LSU Monsoor Delane.<\/p>\n5. New York Giants – Mansoor Delane, CB, LSU<\/p>\n
The Giants could add a receiver later in the draft since there is a deep class at the position, but Delane would immediately be their most talented cornerback.<\/p>\n
Delane was pretty easily the best cornerback in college football this year. While that comes with an asterisk due to Tennessee CB Jermod McCoy\u2019s injury, Delane has the traits and production (18 passes defensed and 6 interceptions over the last two years) to warrant a high first round selection.<\/p>\n
Delane has experience in a pretty wide variety of coverages at Virginia Tech and LSU, and should be able to execute whatever Dennard Wilson calls. He would also almost certainly be an upgrade over Cor\u2019Dale Flott across from Paulson Adebo, though I wouldn\u2019t crown him the Giants\u2019 best CB before he takes the field.<\/p>\n
Stepping back a bit, the fact that free agency comes before the draft both complicates things and could clarify the Giants strategy. If the Giants don\u2019t re-sign Cor\u2019Dale Flott, it would likely signal that they\u2019re pursuing a cornerback in the draft. However, they can\u2019t know what the three teams drafting between ahead of them will do, and they could be left scrambling if they\u2019re targeting Delane and he\u2019s drafted ahead of them.<\/p>\n
On the other hand, if they re-sign Flott and draft Delane, they could be left with an expensive surplus of corners and not enough room on the field. That isn\u2019t a bad problem in and of itself, but it would be a waste of resources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s early in the Draft Process, but a clear trend has already emerged for the New York Giants…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":706801,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2067],"tags":[7,519,1917,56,1208,37129,2321,2469,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-706800","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-giants","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-giants","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-giants","12":"tag-new-york-giants-draft","13":"tag-new-york-giants-mock-draft","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkgiants","16":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115962513344604766","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706800","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=706800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/706801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}