When a team selects a player in the NFL draft and it turns out that player is a major disappointment, the team invariably gets roasted for making an ill-advised pick.
What is often ignored or dismissed is this: The player did not pan out, but that does not always mean the team messed up. And sometimes, the team making the pick saved another team from taking the same player and likely experiencing the same unsatisfying results.
Based on his first two NFL seasons, Tyler Nubin has not lived up to his advance billing coming out of the 2024 draft. The Giants took him in the second round — overall pick No. 47 — to make Nubin the first safety off the board. He was considered a low first-round or high second-round value and that is exactly where he went. This was not viewed as a reach or a gamble. Nubin to the Giants at this spot made complete sense — not only to the Giants.
“Coming out he was a guy that everybody liked,’’ head coach John Harbaugh said. “High draft pick.’’