{"id":995543,"date":"2026-09-08T22:33:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T22:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/995543\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T22:33:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T22:33:15","slug":"the-giants-questions-and-answers-raised-by-darius-slaytons-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/995543\/","title":{"rendered":"The Giants questions and answers raised by Darius Slayton’s release"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Giants receiver depth chart in the wake of Darius Slayton\u2019s release either includes three former 1,000-yard receivers and a promising rookie \u2026 or a bunch of injury risks and an unproven newcomer.<\/p>\n

It depends on how hard you want to squint.<\/p>\n

The willingness to bet on Malik Nabers, Darnell Mooney, Odell Beckham Jr. and Malachi Fields to stay healthy and produce made saving $3 million against the salary cap<\/a> more enticing than stashing depth \u2014 despite Slayton\u2019s odds-beating history of coming back from a Week 1 scratch to become WR1 in 2022.<\/p>\n

Here are the answers to some questions that the timing of cutting Slayton \u2014 before his full salary became guaranteed Saturday \u2014 has raised:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Giants receiver depth chart in the wake of Darius Slayton\u2019s release either includes three former 1,000-yard receivers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":995544,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2067],"tags":[6050,6653,7,519,4126,1917,56,2321,2469,6,13180,9,3248],"class_list":["post-995543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-giants","tag-braxton-berrios","tag-darius-slayton","tag-football","tag-giants","tag-malik-nabers","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-giants","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkgiants","tag-nfl","tag-odell-beckham-jr","tag-sports","tag-sports-plus"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/117237802795831103","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995543","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=995543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/995544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=995543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=995543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=995543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}