Despite suffering a knee injury, rookie WR Wan'Dale Robinson showed why he was such a special player on Sunday. jfmckessy on how Robinson became such an effective weapon for the Giants. NYGiants | TogetherBlue
Robinson had been a crucial part of the Giants’ plans for their offense since he was drafted in April. For a new regime that was taking over a team lacking offensive weapons, Robinson represented the start of a new offensive vision and identity. The idea that the rookie was a clear part of the future of the offense became even more apparent when New York traded away 2021 first-rounder Kadarius Toney, a receiver with a similar skill set, ahead of the trade deadline a few weeks ago.
The rookie got more looks than he ever had against Detroit, securing nine of his 13 targets for 100 yards, all career highs. He also took a jet-sweep handoff for four yards to put his total production for the day at 104 yards from scrimmage. With that level of production, Robinson became the first Giants receiver with a 100-yard game this season and the first to do so since Toney in Week 5 of last season.
Similarly to how the Kansas City Chiefs have used Toney since he joined their squad, the Giants have been giving Robinson manufactured looks to get the ball in his hands and let him create. As a 5-foot-8, 178-pound receiver, Robinson is more of a shifty, yards-after-catch playmaker than one who can consistently win on the perimeter. As such, New York’s game plan for him against the Lions was to find creative ways to put him in space and let him use his agility and good vision to generate yards.
On the Giants’ first drive of the day, that meant giving Robinson a short slide route to the flat with quarterback Daniel Jones trailing him on a play-action bootleg. After a little bump to a defender to help sell the run, the rookie slid back to the outside and found himself wide open, in part thanks to a good route combination that sent the tight end deep on a vertical route, bringing the outside cornerback with him.
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