Malik Nabers is waking up this morning a member of the New York Giants. Night one of the 2024 NFL Draft was a wild affair, yet the Giants made perhaps one of the least surprising selections of the entire evening. Joe Schoen and the Giants’ Front Office pushed hard for Drake Maye, but the team ultimately stayed at the 6th selection. In doing so, the Giants also defied other expectations of taking National Champion quarterback JJ McCarthy to bring home the team’s first true #1 Wide Reciever since another LSU product was selected 12th by the club in 2014. With…
Author: James Foster
James Foster
James is a Sports Writer for Gridiron Heroics. He is still very much refining his craft while pushing out unique perspectives on daily news in the world of the NFL. He is and has been a Giants fan for a period of time spanning nearly two decades.
The 2024 NFL Draft is a little over 24 hours away by this point. The New York Giants are owners of the sixth overall selection, and six picks throughout the entire draft. The draft is the most critical point of a team’s offseason, from the first-round selections to the late-round selections that have sometimes resulted in players such as Tom Brady being selected and turning in legendary careers. The New York Giants have not had the best of luck in the draft process as of late, and these shameful selections are a big part of how the team has slumped…
After much speculation over the past few months, we finally arrived at the week of the 2024 NFL Draft. Representatives from all 32 NFL clubs will soon descend upon Detroit, joined by the future NFL Pros who will hear their names called over the three days of selections, 257 in all. The Chicago Bears will open the proceedings, presumably by selecting USC standout Caleb Williams, while the Jets will end the draft on Saturday evening with the 256th and 257th selections. In these final days, the last-minute shifts that have dominated past drafts will ostensibly happen again, and the situation…
Eli Manning was drafted first overall in the 2004 NFL Draft, but not by the New York Giants. A later-draft swap of the rights of both Manning and Philip Rivers landed the younger Manning brother in New York. What followed was a career of both ups and downs, from two Super Bowl rings to a late-career downturn that was timed with the Giants franchise falling apart from once-respectability into years in the doldrums. The younger Manning brother rode off into the sunset at the close of the 2019 season. 20 years after the selection, Giants coach Tom Coughlin shared the memories…
The 2024 NFL Draft is seven days away, and while some players’ stocks continue to rise, others are not nearly as fortunate. Whether it is a direct result of injuries, like what befell Alabama Cornerback Kool-Aid McKinstry, or the suggestion that they may be “High-Maintenance”, it is a normal occurrence for some of the best players in the nation to see their hopes backslide in the final days. These players will all still be drafted, some highly, but recent developments would suggest that come the NFL Draft, they are unlikely to be drafted as high as they once were projected…
The 2024 NFL Draft is now one week away. As Caleb Williams is all but confirmed to be the top choice, the focus will then shift to the next crucial picks of the early first-round period come next Thursday night. Some say that the Chargers, newly helmed by Jim Harbaugh, hold the true #1 pick of the draft. But behind the top players, a list that includes wideout Malik Nabers and linebacker Dallas Turner, who is seeing their stock rise in these final days before the 2024 NFL Draft? 2024 NFL Draft Rising Talent #1: Georgia WR Ladd McConkey Ladd…
Wide receivers are a big topic of discussion as of late. The next crop of young talent at the position will soon hear their names called and should all be set to enjoy lengthy careers. But for the incumbent talents in the NFL, there may be further movement in their ranks before next Thursday’s NFL Draft. The Houston Texans completed their substantial early offseason by completing their trade for Stefon Diggs earlier this month. According to some, they may have begun a trend. Are More Wide Receiver Trades Coming? The Washington Post’s Jason La Canfora has suggested that there may be…
Tom Brady and his impact on the game of football is hard to deny at this point, one year on from his (seemingly) final retirement. The 199th pick of the 2000 NFL Draft, Brady was thrust into the starting gig in 2001 when Drew Bledsoe faced significant injuries following a Week 2 game against the New York Jets. And the rest, from there, was history. Brady went on to seven Super Bowl rings, six with the Patriots, before seemingly retiring in 2021. He was called back into action for 2022, a season wrought with struggles as the future Hall-of-Famer led Tampa to…
The New York Giants have persistently struggled with their offensive line in the past decade. In recent years, these problems have arguably deepened as the team has frequently struggled to avoid losing double-digit games in a season. With six selections in next weekend’s NFL Draft, General Manager Joe Schoen has relatively few options when it comes to ensuring the team’s every need is met. This week, on the last possible opportunity for any such visits, the team has welcomed Jordan Morgan for a top-30 visit. https://twitter.com/TheGiantsWire/status/1779902788119544133 Arizona Tackle Jordan Morgan Meets With New York Giants At the sixth overall pick,…
J.J. Watt completed a legendary 11-season career at the end of the 2022 season with the Arizona Cardinals. The 11th overall pick of the 2011 NFL Draft Class has recently revealed the team he would have signed with for the 2021 NFL season had he not chosen to take his talents to the desert. J.J. Watt Reveals He Wanted To Sign With Green Bay in 2021 And it should come as no surprise that J.J. Watt considered the Packers. The Watt family–of which brother T.J., who is a defensive powerhouse in his own right, remains in the league–all hail from…
