These New York giants are subject to the most pressure to win their place during the 2025 season

THE New York Giants are much closer to the test field which will be the 2025 season for all those involved.

The intersaison program comes in phase 3 this week with the start of the OTA [organized team activities]So for the first time, training sessions will somehow look like football, although in helmets and shorts. The offensive and defensive players are authorized on the field together, in front of the others, during traditional exercises 7 against 7, 9-sur 7 and 11 against 11, but without live contact.

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So, how much can we really learn from voluntary spring training? Are the depth decisions of the table hung on this representative of the goal line in early June? Unlikely.

This is an important period of the year with the prospect, of course. The team mixes veterans with recruits and there will be competition; Not as fierce as in the training camp, or in joint practices and pre-season, but players can lose positions as easily as we could expect to take control.

It’s a whole puzzle, and it’s still another room. Here are the five players under the most pressure to win their place in 2025 while the Giants hit the team training ground for the first time on Tuesday morning:

Evan Neal, offensive line

You will hear that Mekhi Becton mentioned a lot when Evan Neal’s potential move to the right guard appears in the coming months. For what? Like Becton, Neal broke out for the New York team who drafted him to be a watery stone platform and for various reasons. Disappointing and inconsistent game. Injuries. Lack of cohesion at all levels at the front, both belonging to the player and the coaches responsible for making the most of him.

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Becton went to Stoutland University and, with the advice of Eagles The coach of the renowned offensive line Jeff Stoutland, ended up becoming a capable goalkeeper who obtained a second contract in the free agency with the Chargers.

Can Neal do the same for the Giants, who refused his fifth year option as a global selection n ° 7 in the 2022 draft? In three seasons, he played in just over half [29] of 51 regular Giants season games.

His difficulties in the right tackle were frustrating, for the player and the team, and his running with the fans two seasons has only added to speech and disappointment for all those involved. Is it even possible that Neal is doing enough to prove his value for this year? Absolutely. It is a little longer to think that the former Alabama star can ultimately obtain a new GIANTS contract, but finer things have happened. He will have to beat Jake Kubas in addition to the veteran Greg Van Roten, who could be best served as a reserve superior to the interior – if Neal can win the work of the right guard.

The Joker here is the recruit Marcus Mbow, who will start working in Tackle. This could change if the choice of fifth round of Purdue impresses early. The warning here is the calendar: the offensive and defensive line players do not really enter their hearing period until the pads continue in the training camp.

Tae Banks, Cornerback

Banks was fueled by his competition against the best two years ago. These battles have produced victories and losses on the ground, and how the banks responded to Down is the most impressive.

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In what was a lost season in the standings, the presence of Banks and the growth of his game from the start were an encouraging light point. He finished two interceptions and 11 defensive assists, the second plus with a recruit in the history of the Giants franchise.

Last season, Banks was far from the same player. Instead of leaping forward, he fought when he was challenged and was finally banished while the coaches rushed to try to find a way to work with the banks and rediscover his game.

Now that Paulson Adebo is in the fold, paid to be the upper corner of the list, the banks must find the motivation to reappear as a player on which the giants can count. He has a pedigree in the first round and there were lightning. If he does not show signs of growth or development, the giants will be faced with a fifth year option decision the next offseason and his future here will be uncertain.

Bobby Okereke, secondary

Two years ago, I declared Okereke as the best free agent signing for the Giants since Antrel Rolle, who played each cliché of a five -year contract and was a leader in the team race at his Super Bowl XLVI championship.

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What happened to Okereke last season is one of the greatest mysteries that the giants need to resolve – or the 28 -year -old captain could look at the start of the end of his mandate with Big Blue.

Okereke had an exceptional year in the Wink Martindale system and had the undeniable appearance of an upward player in this league. His absence on the Pro Bowl team was considered a serious snob, and his name was mentioned in the same breath as the potential hall of Famer at Bobby Wagner and Fred Warner.

In a stacked position, Okereke was holding up. Last year, he was essentially a non-factor, then a back injury cost him the last month of the season. The giants did not make a ton in the post, at least not enough in free agency or in the project to exert pressure on Okereke.

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With so many discussions on the addition of Abdul Carter recruits and the third round Darius Alexander, the Giants Defensive Front should be very good. Okereke has proven that he can change the situation, and if it comes back to it, he is suddenly one of the most important cogs here. He was too good a player two years ago to suggest that he was only a product of the old system; Return the clock back and ask Ochereke to play again at a high level, or it will be a big hole in the middle of a defense that is positioned to transport this team.

John Michael Schmitz, center

Schmitz has shown progressive progress during its first two seasons, so it’s positive. But did the old choice of second round of Minnesota were enough to consolidate its place of fundamental room at the front? It is certainly for the debate entering a third pivotal year. It is not a dominant physical presence and has difficulties with powerful interior defenders. The choice of fifth round Marcus Mbow is a potential player at five points and where his development as a recruit leads it could also affect the future plans of Schmitz. At this point, Schmitz must settle as a player on which the giants can count to be a constant. It is not yet there, because the neck and ankle injuries cut its campaign in 2024 short of week 15, and the veteran Greg Van Roten is looming as someone who could intervene as a space reserved in the center Si Schmitz does not emerge like the Linkpin Schoen and Daboll wrote it.

Jalin Hyatt, wide receiver

Hyatt is 24 years old in September, and like Schmitz, the Giants anticipated the old third round choice, they passed to select two years ago with a much more important role at this stage. Part of the blame for the lack of production of production of Hyatt 8-Matchs of last fall can be attributed to the difficulties of the giants in the quarter-Arrière, with four different players obtaining shots in position. The absence of a vertical game in the offensive removes Hyatt’s greatest force.

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But his inability to show other parts of his game, everything with Darius Slayton turns out to be more reliable, has essentially transformed Hyatt into a certain reflection after the fact. Of course, there is a minimum of hope with the king of Moon Ball Russell Wilson who should start the season as QB1. However, Slayton obtained a contract extension and the giants could end up registering Gabe Davis, who visited and who knows Daboll and Schoen a lot of their stay in Buffalo.

The name of Hyatt has been deposited in commercial speculation this offseason, but it is difficult to see a lot of value in your work at the moment. In the coming months should be important to determine if it has a role here in the future.

This article originally appeared on Northjersey.com: Ny giants under pressure: these players must win their place in 2025