Giants news, 7/22: Giants vets report to camp, roster ranking, Jaxson Dart, more headlines

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Top 10 NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year candidates in 2025: Who is biggest challenger to Abdul Carter? | NFL.com

1. New York Giants Abdul Carter. Carter checks all the boxes when it comes to the makings of a modern DROY. The first defensive player drafted has won DROY in three of the past six drafts and the award has been dominated by edge rushers of late. Some considered Carter the best player available in the 2025 draft, and for good reason: He’s a force to be reckoned with off the edge, displaying the burst and relentlessness to be a perennial double-digit sack artist. The Giants have a chance to be ferocious when it comes to getting after quarterbacks, and that should only boost the DROY fervor for Carter. He’ll be playing alongside one of the league’s top interior defensive linemen, three-time Pro Bowler Dexter Lawrence, and offenses will also have to account for his talented fellow edge rushers, Brian Burns and Kayvon Thibodeaux. I’ll be surprised if there isn’t more than enough production to go around. Carter is the decisive DROY front-runner entering the 2025 season.

Kayvon Thibodeaux ready for season 4

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— Kayvon Thibodeaux (@kayvont) July 21, 2025

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One reason for optimism for all 32 NFL teams entering training camp: Why you should be excited for 2025 season | CBSSports.com

New York Giants: Jaxson Dart. As exciting as Abdul Carter and his injection along a defensive line that already consists of Brian Burns and Dexter Lawrence is, what gives New York Giants fans hope is Jaxson Dart. The front office had enough faith in the Ole Miss product to trade back up into the first round of the draft to select him, and he is now the long-term answer at the position. Of course, it’s a question as to when we’ll actually see Dart with Russell Wilson likely the Week 1 starter, but he provides hope for a brighter tomorrow and heads to New York with a ton of raw skill.

Jaxson Dart deserves clean shot without Giants drama dragging him down | New York Daily News

Members of the Giants’ staff had fawned over Shedeur Sanders. Giants brass had spent a lot more time with Sanders during the fall. Then, Daboll’s increased participation after the NFL season steered the process in a different direction.

Regardless, the point here is that Schoen’s lukewarm rhetoric and reluctance to stick his neck out about Dart caught the attention of some people around the league. And it has put the rookie in a strange position: trying to validate support that almost sounds conditional.

If Dart turns out to be a good player, Schoen and Daboll both will take and receive credit for the evaluation and the pick. But if Dart doesn’t pan out, it seems set up to lay the blame on Daboll and the coaching staff with Schoen surviving the mistake.

NFL training camp watchlist: Shedeur’s debut, Kelce’s encore and Pickens in Dallas | The Athletic

QB Jaxson Dart. I debated putting Abdul Carter here because with the pads on, we’ll finally get a more accurate sense of his dominating potential at edge. But all eyes have been on Dart since he was drafted and those won’t shy away as camp picks up. Especially interesting will be how the snaps are divided among quarterbacks with Russell Wilson the clear No. 1 coming out of the spring. Will Dart move into the QB2 role (he took more second-team offensive snaps than Jameis Winston this spring) or will he settle into a QB3 role that benefits his long-term development? And will those camp snap assignments tell us anything about the Giants’ game-day plans?

These Giants veterans could be on roster bubble during training camp | NJ.com

PK Graham Gano: He signed a three-year contract extension in September of 2023 that hasn’t worked out so far, largely because of injuries. He turned 38 in April, after playing just eight and 10 games in 2023 and 2024. It might be time for the Giants to move on, provided they can find a suitable replacement. Gano has two years left on his current deal, which runs through 2026. Cutting him would free up $4.4 million in immediate cap space, while spreading a $1.25 million dead money hit equally between 2025 and 2026.

NY Giants roster projection: Our prediction heading into training camp | The Record

The Giants saw a lot to like from Tracy last season, but there was room for another back to complement Tracy, or for Tracy to complement. That’s Skattebo, whose powerful style and electric personality should make him a fan favorite the moment he gets on the field. Those two backs together should provide a great foundation here. Singletary is a solid veteran and someone is going to have to beat him out. The pressure facing Eric Gray, a fifth-round pick two years ago, comes from the presence of Miller, who can push him for a spot. There is a chance “Turbo” might be able to carve out a role on special teams, perhaps as the secondary kickoff returner to Ihmir Smith-Marsette, which is why he gets the nod in this initial projection.

Giants training camp: 5 players on the roster bubble | USAToday.com

Dyontae Johnson is an excellent football player and competitor as well as a coach favorite. But he’s in a tough battle for a backup job behind Bobby Okereke and Micah McFadden with Darius Muasau, Ty Summers, and free agents Chris Board and Demetrius Flannigan-Fowles. If Johnson can’t stand out on special teams, he’ll be headed for the practice squad.

25 Questions in 25 Days: Malik Nabers’ encore | Giants.com

Now going into Year 2, what can we expect from Nabers? Well, it’s tough to predict 110 or more receptions for a player. Only four pass-catchers reached that mark last year, two of which were tight ends (Bowers and Trey McBride). However, given the big change the Giants made on offense this offseason, Nabers topping last year’s reception mark does not seem like too tall of a task.

Now with a full season under his belt, improved quarterback play, and hopefully a healthy offensive line, the sky is the limit for the young receiver.

NFL All-Underrated Team: Ryan Fitzpatrick leads our picks on offense | Sainst Wire

First team: Kareem McKenzie. How many guys can they spent all 161 games playing for two different teams in the same city? McKenzie was a third-round pick by the New York Jets in 2001, but he went across town to sign with the New York Giants and ended up winning two Super Bowls there. He did a great job protecting Eli Manning all those years and anchoring the right side of the line. The way some Giants fans tell it, their team never did get around to replacing him at right tackle.

Second team: LT David Diehl. Diehl did really well for himself as a former fifth-round pick; he won the New York Giants’ starting job at left tackle in his second season and held onto it for several years before he was asked to move around, splitting time at both guard spots and right tackle. He started 160 of his 164 games in the NFL, all with New York, and he won a pair of Super Bowl titles, too. He was a key piece of those Giants teams everyone wrote off before they played a single snap.