New York Giants' 2025 NFL free agents

[uconnjack8]

Guess we shouldn't be expecting any comp picks in 2026

[MightyGiants]

Guess we shouldn't be expecting any comp picks in 2026

The Giants have roughly $40 million in cap space.  They are far more likely to be signing more players than they lose.

[Doc16LT56]

This is a trap we all fall into, the "they are rookies so they will get better" trap.

Did KT get better?  Neal?  Banks?  Flott?  Robinson (well at least he got healthy)?  Bellinger?  JMS?  Hyatt? Ezeudu?  Gray?

The thing is, rookies making a second-year jump are actually far more infrequent than most of us (myself included) assume.  In fact, probably just as many will regress.

Yes. It's not easy building a team. You think you've plugged one hole and suddenly two more holes spring open.

This is reminiscent of the reviews of the 2018 draft after 1 year. I just did a quick Google search to refresh my memory and the reviews of the 2018 rookie class were VERY complimentary toward Dave Gettleman. Here's how PFF described that rookie class...

The 2018 draft class performed very well. As a draft class, they ranked second in our PFF WAR metric, and Saquon Barkley, Will Hernandez, Lorenzo Carter & B.J. Hill all finished in the top five rookies at their respective positions.

[uconnjack8]

The Giants have roughly $40 million in cap space.  They are far more likely to be signing more players than they lose.

Well my point was that none of those free agents is going to be worth a big contract that would enter the comp pick formula. 

Giants are middle of the pack in terms of cap space.  Not great considering their record for the last two years.

[kingm56]

Very well said

No it's not - its an incredibly poor comparison.  None of the players listed had remotely close to the early success as Nabers and Taylor, who literally set records.  Phillips also had a wonderful rookie campaign.  I must of missed the records set by the players listed.  With the exception of KT, all of those players had meh to poor rookie seasons.  Why would you expect them to get better the following season?   On that point I agree; you should never assume a player is going to get better...and I NEVER do.  However, these players have already proven to be good...even if they just sustain thier protection, it's still far better than average.