Saquon had a catastrophic injury and we relied on building an offense around him this year.
Golladay has an extensive injury history and we gave him 70 million dollars that no other team would give him.
Toney missed games in two of his four College season and we drafted him first.
Daniel Jones missed games every season of his career. Why did we think he was going to make it through this year?
Sam Beal took up a roster spot for three years and was literally never healthy enough to play.
Sheperd misses more games than he plays every season.
Odell missed games every season that he was a giant.
Slayton has always had a tendency to get nicked up.
Next year I can confidently say that the following players will not be the same: Martinez, gates, rodarious williams. Lemieux and peppers maybe ok.
Every team has injuries but we have injury-prone players that we rely on heavily as a part of next year's plan every year.
Maybe chalk it all up to bad luck, but will we learn?
Rosters are relatively small. And contracts allow only so much flex. Counting on players coming off injuries is part of it.
This “program” is young. We are still building our front line players. Depth. True depth takes time
Then there is luck or lack thereof. We got cluster bombed this year on OL AND WR.
Even losin Barkley last year “our best player”( I’m not looking to debate this) we were relatively lucky with injuries overall last year. This year not
I get your point, but those guys mentioned had not had a major injury prior to signing or drafting.
Just my opinion
One of the 2 "vets" they signed, they signed on July 31, and he retired 4 days later. So let's not pretend that the Giants were caught flat-footed with that one.
regardless, the point is the OL has def had clustered injuries. I wanted them to draft a guard this year as the depth was not great but Gates, shane and Thomas were def our 3 best. We counted on development from them and especially Peart (which really hurt). The OL improved through out last season, and many were excited at the young guys we had.
Some of the decisions on players with known, current injuries are real head-scratchers. the Rudolph signing and Barkley's Year 5 option are glaring examples.