for Waller, New York sent a third-round pick—the 100th overall pick, which they acquired from the Chiefs when they traded for receiver Kadarius Toney, to be specific—to Las Vegas. Waller, who’s spent the last five seasons with the Raiders, had signed a three-year, $51 million contract extension before the 2022 season and is under team control for four more seasons.
Schoen and the rest of the front office didn’t have a lot of faith in the wide receivers available in the current free-agent class and the draft. Of the wide receivers left on the free-agent market, the top guys are Odell Beckham Jr., who presents a risk coming off of an injury that kept him off of the field for a full season, and JuJu Smith-Schuster, who had a bit of a comeback year playing with Patrick Mahomes in Kansas City but had seemed to be on the decline in the years prior.
With Waller, the Giants are getting a tight end that has proven he has the ceiling of a top pass-catching target in an NFL offense. That’s what he was in 2019 and 2020 when he led the Raiders in targets, receptions, and receiving yards as he put up back-to-back 1,000-yard seasons. The former Raider is absolutely more of a receiving tight end than a blocking one, but the Giants already got themselves a talented blocker at the position in Bellinger, their fourth-round pick from last year.
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