The injury story was almost comical.
Ojulari missed the first three weeks of training camp with a hamstring injury. He then hurt his right calf in training camp and missed the first two regular-season games of the season. Then in Week 4, Ojulari injured his left calf. After waiting for three weeks for it to improve, the Giants finally put him on Injured Reserve. Ojulari did not return to the active roster until early December, missing two full months. He then left the Week 16 game early with an ankle injury and barely played the following week. He was held out of the regular-season finale and then came out of the playoff game against the Vikings with a quad contusion.
In all, Ojulari played in seven regular-season games with five starts. (And again, in two of those games, he left early and another he barely played).
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I have always had a hard time rooting for Ximines because I was screaming and pounding the table for Maxx Crosby when the Giants took Ximines.
Ouch. Thanks for reminding us.
Another example of Gettleman using Walter Football mock drafts as his draft prep (jk.... kinda)
Who said that? No one said they want him off the team next year. Valid points were made on how many years he has remaining and the people in charge are not the ones who brought him in.
Thomas, Lawrence, McKinney are now or soon due extensions. Jones, possibly Saquon and Love may also be back.
The Giants also have a dearth of talent - you’d like him to be a solution but he has good trade value. Giants need picks.
I think they let him play out next year and if the team is struggling you recoup picks for him.
No one said that.
Where did any of us say that?
On the other hand playing what's essentially the power end in a 4-3 (ie Michael Strahan) might not be the best fit for him.
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Ojulari had one injury ridden season and people are saying he shouldn't be on the team next year? Holy fuckin shit. This place gets some interesting people.
No one said that.
Yeah, I probably came the closest to saying something like that, but clearly said I wanted to give him another year.
Another shit Gettleman pick.
Not only that but he skipped his final college season due to COVID.
Essentially 0 playing time in three years.
I wanted Rhamondre Stevenson instead of Smith.
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is not a known negative for Ojulari unless someone here knows Schoen's original grade on him when he was in Buffalo.
Or, someone heard something. It's one season, but he only has a brief #2 pick contract with two years already gone. Ojulari wasn't available in 2022, and NYG already has a handful of core guys establishing themselves for second contracts. Ojulari is now behind.
NYG can't keep everyone, let alone year after year.
Agreed, but probably don't need to be prematurely pulling the plug on Ojularu with several years to go on his current structure. And certainly not because the NY Giants have so many good core players already lined up in front of him waiting to be paid.
There is simply nothing to concern ourselves with (cap-wise) coming out of Ojulari's draft class which included Kadarius Toney, himself, Aaron Robinson, Elerson Smith, Gary Brightwell and Rodarius Williams. And the draft class in front of his only has Andrew Thomas and Xavier Mckinney that will command higher end deals but no one else. So for a two-year period of draftees, I would think Ojulari is safe enough to get paid if he indeed gets himself on the field consistently and performs. That is the key issue.
Played all 17 as a rookie, broke the franchise rookie sack record.
2nd on team this year in basically 5.5 games.
He’s a double digit sack guy when healthy. Had bad injury luck this year. As pointed out, one injury causes overcompensation and leads to another.
Give him a whole offseason to train and improve his durability. He’ll be fine.
His talent level is elite