Giants Draft: OL Still Job 1

While the Giants through some money at the OL in FA, with the signings of Geoff Schwartz, JD Walton, Charles Brown and John Jerry, they still haven't done nearly enough.  Of the four guys they signed: Schwartz looks like a nice fit; JD Walton hasn't played in a few years because of injury;  Charles Brown failed in New Orleans, and John Jerry graded out as a bad player in Miami.   Schwartz is the only one for whom a regular role can be assumed.

Along with Pugh, that gives the Giants two healthy, starter quality linemen, after free agency.  To wit, the three other presumptive starters, Snee, Beatty and Walton are all coming back from injury.   So the Giants are still in a position where they really must hit the OL 2 or 3 times in this draft.   Fortunately, it's a pretty deep draft for OL's overall.   Unfortunately, there aren't a ton of Giant-type OL's in it, and compounding that is the fact that the Giants haven't picked a starting type OL outside of the second round since David Diehl in 2003.

Fortunately, I do think there could still be some Giant type OL's on the board on the third day of this draft, Notre Dame's Chris Watt, for example, but what they cannot do is to wait  till day three to start.

I think the Giants are probably leaning toward taking an offensive playmaker in the first, so that will push addressing the OL to the second at the earliest.  And if they do that, they really must pray that Joel Bitonio of Nevada is available at 43, because after Zack Martin whom we'd have to get at 12, Bitonio is the second most Giant like OL in the class, and that's because he can play all 5 spots and he's tough.   The Giants cannot wait any longer to fix the OL.  If they don't start Thursday, they have to start Friday.