Fact or Fiction: Toughest stretch of the schedule - Giants.com

The Giants will select 12 players in the 2019 NFL Draft

John Schmeelk: Fiction: Dave Gettleman said on Thursday he would not want to draft someone who wouldn’t make the team, and it is hard to believe 12 rookies (not even counting undrafted rookies) would be on the final 53-man roster. The Giants have to wait 58 picks from #37 to #95 between their second and third round selections. The draft is particularly strong in that area, and I would suspect the Giants move some of their later round picks to either acquire an additional pick in that range, or move up from 95. I also think it is possible, especially if they do not select a quarterback, for the Giants to trade picks this season to acquire draft capital in 2020.

Lance Medow: Fiction: When GM Dave Gettleman spoke with the media Thursday during his pre-draft press conference, he addressed this very subject and said, “…having 12 picks is crazy. One of the things I have talked about is that you don’t want to draft a player that you are going to cut. Every guy you draft, there is a reason you are drafting him and a reason that he should make your club.” Based on those comments, I don’t think the Giants will select 12 players. I think they’ll package a few picks to move up in the draft because it’s hard to believe 12 players from the same class (technically 13 if you include Sam Beal in that group) will make the roster.

Paul Dottino: Fiction - It would be very hard for me to imagine the Giants using all 12 of their picks. In fact, this would be the first time the franchise has used 12 selections in the draft since 1992, the last year the NFL used a 12-round system. Since the NFL-AFL merger in 1970, the Giants' record for picks in one draft is 18 choices in both 1972 and 1974.

As I always expected, GM Dave Gettleman got back into the third round in the recent Odell Beckham Jr. trade with the Browns, a year after he forfeited his third-rounder to take Sam Beal in the supplemental draft. But this still leaves the general manager sitting it out between picks 37 and 96. It's hard to believe he will go without a selection for 59 spots when he's already stated that this is the deepest four-round batch of talent he has graded in his career. I figure he will attempt to jump into that void (or maybe even higher) with some combination of picks - he has two in the fourth, three in the fifth, one in the sixth and two in the seventh.

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2019-04-19 17:11:45Z
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