Draft Recap
posted by Kyle on April 27th, 2008
The Giants picks look as follows:
1st Round (pick #31): S Kenny Phillips, Miami
2nd Round (pick #63): CB Terrell Thomas, USC
3rd Round (pick #95): WR Mario Manninngham, Michigan - a big-play kind of guy for Michigan. Caught 27 TD’s in his career, 20 of which went for 20 yards or more. Should be an excellent down-the-field force for the Giants in a couple of years.
4th Round (pick #123): LB Bryan Kuel, BYU - the Giants traded their third 6th-round pick to move up and get Kuel. A bit older since he’s coming from BYU (Mormon faith requires a service project for a year or two, which Kuel did in ‘03 and ‘04). He’s a great cover linebacker, and a smart one too. A quick, agile, hard-working guy.
5th Round (pick #165): LB Jonathan Goff, Vanderbilt - a strong in-the-box backer who is accomplished academically as well. Has great upper-body strength and works well up in the box.
6th Round (pick #198): QB Andre Woodson, Kentucky - finished second in school history in many categories, 2nd only to Giants backup Jared Lorenzen. Has great instincts and can throw very well in a small window. However, he has a hitch in his delivery, and this needs to be corrected, or else it will lengthen his delivery enough for NFL corners to get a jump on the telegraphed throw. The Giants’ front office really want a QB for the future that was developed in their own system.
6th Round (pick #199): DE Robert Henderson, Southern Mississippi - not much info on this guy here, but it can’t hurt to have too many DE’s, as the Giants know from experience. Especially with Kiwanuka moving to LB possibly.
Overall, I’m very pleased with the draft. I’m just very very baffled still by the Dan Conner passing. I still haven’t figured it out, and neither have many experts. If anyone has any opinions, please feel free to email us or comment here, or leave us a phone message and we’ll put it in our draft recap cast.
May 3rd, 2008 at 9:13 pm
Overall, a good draft. Picking up Manningham in the 3rd round is a steal. he was a borderline 1st round pick before all the drugs stuff, which really means very little. I’m sure many current Giants smoke pot. Phillips is a good pick at #31, with our loss of Wilson at safety. Terrel Thomas will only help the depth of our so-so secondary. I personally though we should have taken a linebacker earlier than the 4th round, getting an LB is more of an issue than getting a CB at this point, imo. But overall, for a team with low draft picks in each round, a solid draft, I’d say.