Hyatt adds a dynamic vertical element to a revamped corps of receivers for the Giants. I was coming from another game, landed there, and first half I was on the field, and you could really feel his speed. But I was on the field for the first half. I can’t remember why I came in late, but I was a little bit late. In need of weapons for an offense that was last in the NFL in explosive plays in 2022, the Giants - given the opportunity - jumped at the chance to add Hyatt’s speed. Hyatt will be a useful weapon for a team that needs a deep threat, but the ceiling for his dynamic skillset is unknown until he proves that he can earn position against tight man coverage and win these targets. Tennessee used Hyatt as a target on short passes that act as an extension of the run game, but his lack of yards after contact skill is a contributing factor for lower returns on these plays that some might expect. He’s not afraid to split defenders, but he’s not going to bounce off hits or pull through any contact beyond reaches. Hyatt is a shifty receiver with quick and precise footing after the catch. His positioning at the catch point will be the difference between him having seasonal yardage upside over 1,000 yards or his ceiling being 700-900 yards and fewer targets. None of this makes Hyatt a fraud of an NFL prospect. However, in those instances, he was often a beat or two earlier than he should have been and would have tipped off his attack to better cornerbacks in the NFL. He can also turn back to an underthrown target. Hyatt can take contact and maintain possession. It’s likely that Hyatt will have to make contested catches and his ability to earn position at the catch point while in tight coverage is not a known factor. The curse is that the best SEC defensive backs aren’t (yet, if ever) close to talent of the best NFL cornerbacks on every team that he’ll see weekly. The blessing is that Hyatt has the skills to earn so much separation that all he has to do is run under the ball. 31 overall prospect for Dane Brugler, draft analyst for The Athletic, carrying a Round 1-2 grade.īecause of the extremely spread offense Hyatt played in at Tennessee, Matt Waldman of The Rookie Scouting Portfolio sees Hyatt as somewhat of a projection in the NFL. Hyatt was the third-ranked wide receiver and No. He carried a second-round grade on the Big Blue View Big Board. “He said, ‘Here, just type it in for me.’” “We had to type it in his phone for him,” Schoen said. Schoen said Daboll, who loves to FaceTime but not text, did get a tad of help. If you know somebody, hey, why don’t you shoot the Rams a text, or you know, give them a call and again, this is what it looks like it would be, does it make sense and we just call and say, hey, when you’re on the clock, let us know.” “He initiated the trade with the Rams so, I congratulate him on that. “Dabs actually executed his first trade,” Schoen said. Head coach Brian Daboll got the ball rolling with a text message to Rams coach Sean McVay. The team that bit, allowing the Giants to move up, was the pick-needy Los Angeles Rams. I told the guys, just start making calls when it looks like we’re going to do it for our four (fourth-round pick), when it comes into range, and we made a couple phone calls and some teams were interested in doing it. “We were joking around after we took the center (John Michael Schmitz) and were like, hey, wonder if we can get them both. Did he think at the time he could actually get both players. Schoen said Hyatt was “in that range” on the Giants’ board and could have been a possible choice at 57 if Schmitz had been gone. He surrendered his fourth-round pick (No. That decision ultimately led to Schoen getting both a center the Giants desperately needed and wide receiver Jalin Hyatt, who Schoen traded up to No. 89 in Round 3 to get a high-value player. Why? Because he felt there might be an opportunity to move up from No. 56 after the New York Jets had selected Joe Tippmann at No. New York Giants GM Joe Schoen resisted the temptation to trade up in Round 2 to select center John Michael Schmitz, sweating out 14 picks and a trade up by the Chicago Bears to No.
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