Why Leonard Williams trade may mean everything in Giants’ draft decision at No. 4 pick - Live News

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Videos can use content-based copyright law contains reasonable use Fair Use (https://www.youtube.com/yt/copyright/). It’s easy to watch physical specimen Isaiah Simmons crush the NFL Combine, see the Giants with major needs on defense, and call it a no-brainer to draft the Clemson linebacker No. 4 overall.  Dave Gettleman also might do what plenty of NFL talent evaluators in Indianapolis thought the Giants GM will do: take the best offensive tackle available to protect Daniel Jones, whether it’s Louisville’s Mekhi Becton, Iowa’s Tristan Wirfs or another top talent.  But the Giants’ absence of a high third-round pick due to October’s Leonard Williams trade with the Jets may loom large in a decision not to draft anyone in that spot, but to trade back.  For if you paid attention to this year’s combine, you saw that this is a strong draft class. There are high-end prospects, and teams also project to land instant contributors in the second, third, even fourth rounds at key positions.  Wide receiver and corner are particularly deep. Quarterback has some talent. There are some intriguing interior offensive linemen complementing tantalizing offensive tackles. Corner, tackle, safety, linebacker and center are among the Giants’ many obvious needs.  And while the Giants project to receive a late third-round compensatory pick due to Landon Collins’ free agent signing in Washington, Gettleman’s trade of a 2020 third-rounder and 2021 fifth-rounder for Williams means the Giants own only two of this draft’s first 97 picks.  That’s simply not enough for rookie head coach Joe Judge to quickly reinforce a barren roster, even with his $70 million-plus in cap space entering free agency. Not to mention their 2021 fifth-rounder to the Jets becomes a fourth-rounder if the Giants re-sign Williams.  The Giants’ leverage at No. 4, where QB-hungry teams are eager to move, is simply too great for them to ignore. They could trade back as far as No. 7 with Carolina, for example, and still land one of four revered offensive tackles or Auburn defensive tackle Derrick Brown.  Brown is a Gettleman player if there ever was one, who some consider the pound-for-pound most solid prospect in this draft, good enough to go at the Giants’ original pick. He tested poorly at the combine but is still thought of that highly.  The Niners traded back from No. 2 to 3 in 2017 with the Chicago Bears and got two third-round picks (one of them the following year) and a fourth, while still drafting No. 3 overall. The Bears drafted North Carolina QB Mitchell Trubisky.  The Colts traded back from No. 3 to 6 in 2018 with the Jets and got three second-round picks (two that year and one the next year) while still drafting in the top 10. The Jets drafted USC QB Sam Darnold.  The common denominator is that a market existed those years for teams moving up to draft quarterbac