Darius Slayton may be the next Giant to find stardom elsewhere
NY Post
You don’t need to be a fortune teller — just a Giants fan well-versed in Murphy’s Law — to see the future headline now.
“Free-agent steal Darius Slayton has first career 1,000-yard season after leaving the Giants.”
If things weren’t bad enough at home during a 2-10 slog of a season, it seems that a former Giant is excelling somewhere during every NFL television window.
Saquon Barkley is threatening to break the NFL single-season rushing record for the Eagles, Xavier McKinney leads the league in interceptions for the Packers, Julian Love just said that Leonard Williams is playing at a “Defensive Player of the Year” level after they both made huge plays in a Seahawks win over the Jets at MetLife Stadium, and the list goes on with Evan Engram, Ben Bredeson, Jabrill Peppers and others to a lesser degree.
“They’re all really good football players, so, obviously, they’re going to make plays,” Slayton said after Monday’s practice. “But we have plenty of capable football players in this building. If we can just get everybody to play to the level that they’re capable of simultaneously, then we’ll be all right.”
Slayton has teamed with all those players over his six seasons, tied with Dexter Lawrence as the longest-tenured Giants. Wouldn’t he expect better results than a 31-63-1 record since 2019 with various combinations of those players together?
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