As the school season ended and the Giants ramped up their participant analysis course of, they initially seen Travis Hunter as a cornerback in the beginning, with the distinctive skill to additionally contribute at times as a gifted broad receiver.
That designation is just not set in stone. The ultimate dedication has but to be made and the one certainty is that this: Hunter might help in a giant manner wherever he strains up.
Final week and persevering with on into this week, the Giants hunkered down within the workforce facility for his or her annual NFL draft conferences, gathering all concerned — normal supervisor Joe Schoen and your entire personnel division, Brian Daboll and his teaching employees and all of the scouts — in a single room for complete discussions. That is the place the precise workforce draft board is finalized, rating each participant by way of expertise, worth and wish.
The Giants personal the No. 3 choose within the first spherical April 24 and Hunter is anticipated to go within the first 4 picks — there may be rising hypothesis he may go as excessive as No. 2 to the Browns, taking him off the board earlier than the Giants are on the clock. Do the Giants follow their first thought — that he’s primarily a cornerback — or do they dig in deeper and finally see him as too potent a weapon on offense to restrict his snaps as a goal for newly signed Russell Wilson?
