Last season the Giants were ranked as having the fastest offensive skills positions based on their forty times. (See link). This offseason they added John Ross who is tied for the fastest forty time and Kadarius Toney who this year had the 7th fastest forty out of 58 wide receiver prospects. The Giants have four skill positions with RAS Elite composite Speed Grades - Barkley, Toney, Ross, Engram. In addition Darius Slayton has a Great grade (one below elite). You can even throw in Daniel Jones. Midway thru the 2020 season Jones had three of top 7 QB speeds recorded. Lamar Jackson had the other four. That must be play speed as Jones' RAS score is just okay.
Compared to the NFC East the Giants are significantly faster. The Cowboys only have Elliott with a RAS Great composite speed grade. The Eagles only have RB Sanders with a Great composite speed grade. The WFT has Gibson, McLaurin, Thomas with Great and only Curtis Samuel with Elite.
Last season the Giants released Corey Coleman. When questioned about that Joe Judge responded the team simply wanted more speed at the wide receiver position. They seem to have achieved that.
For the 2020 Super Bowl the Chiefs had the fastest receivers from that season and the 49ers had some of the fastest running backs. During the 2019 season, a running back exceeded 21 mph 19 times. The 49ers accounted for four of those plays, most in the NFL.
It is nice to see the Giants excel at something. Joe Judge wants to play to his players strengths. It remains to be seen if the Giants can capitalize on their speed. Will the playbook be opened up to do that?
RAS Scores
Daniel Jeremiah tweet on 2020 skills position - (
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His timed speed suggests that his speed is closer to 4.5 than the 4.81 he ran at the combine
The interesting thing about DJ is that if he had run a 4.5 forty the pundits would have thought more highly of him
He may not be super quick, but he is fast as can be.
He may not be super quick, but he is fast as can be.
Exactly, he's going to juke exactly no one, but you better keep an eye on him when he rolls out.
And by "now" I guess I mean, like, about four months from now.
Ha!
especially when you were running away with that TV