{"id":874377,"date":"2026-04-25T15:30:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T15:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/874377\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T15:30:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T15:30:19","slug":"nfl-draft-grades-day-2-fans-analysts-like-colton-hood-malachi-fields-picks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/874377\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Draft grades, Day 2: Fans, analysts like Colton Hood, Malachi Fields picks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">Hood, who was a frequent name in Round 1 mocks, was a very good value early in Round 2. He gives the Giants a true cover corner, someone who has the speed and confidence to challenge the league\u2019s top receivers. The team could have selected a DT to fill the void left by Dexter Lawrence\u2019s recent departure, but Hood offered better value than the available interior D-linemen still on the board.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">The Giants traded their original third-round pick this year in their move up for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/players\/jaxson-dart\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Jaxson Dart<\/a> in 2025. With the way Dart played in Year 1, and the hope he\u2019s already injected into the franchise, that investment seems to be paying off.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">New York sent fourth- and fifth-round picks this year and a fourth-rounder next year to get back into Round 3 for Fields \u2026 that\u2019s a lot of draft capital for a receiver without suddenness and long speed to separate from NFL defenders. That said, Fields offers unique contested-catch ability and should benefit from playing alongside Malik Nabers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hood, who was a frequent name in Round 1 mocks, was a very good value early in Round&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":874378,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2067],"tags":[7,519,1917,56,1208,2321,2469,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-874377","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-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkgiants","15":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116466065289874287","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874377","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=874377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/874378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=874377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=874377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}