Some years, discovering sufficient high quality gamers to make the preliminary 53-man roster is a chore, when after about 45 or 46 or 47 the considering goes one thing like this: Do I really want to search out just a few extra guys deserving of creating the group from this uninspiring assortment?
That has been the case with the Giants far too typically within the final decade or so.
This 12 months, when, by 4 p.m. on Aug. 26, the Giants take a carving knife and slice off not fairly half of the 90-man squad they carried by coaching camp, that’s not the best way it’s going to go down.
The assumption that they improved their depth got here to fruition on the sector this summer season, as illustrated within the Giants successful their first two preseason video games and outscoring the Payments and Jets by a mixed 42-21 within the second half. Which means the Giants’ backups — lots of whom will probably be fringe roster inclusions or won’t make the minimize — outplayed their counterparts in these two video games. That may be a good signal relating to assessing how deep the depth chart truly runs.
