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The New York Giants added an enormous piece to their offense by buying and selling for tight finish Darren Waller on Tuesday, in line with Tom Pelissero of NFL Community.
New York despatched a third-round decide to the Las Vegas Raiders in alternate for the one-time Professional Bowler, per Ian Rapoport of NFL Community.
The deal helps give the Giants a reliable downfield weapon, particularly serving to out younger quarterback Daniel Jones after his personal four-year, $160 million contract. Although some followers have been lukewarm concerning the Jones deal, practically everybody was impressed by the Giants’ newest addition:
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DARREN WALLER !!!!!!!!
WELCOME TO THE GIANTS🤗
HIS STORY IS SO AWESOME.
Nice participant, even higher human.
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Darren Waller offers the #Giants a dynamic weapon on the receiving facet of the ball they have not had since OBJ. Nice transfer by NY.
Яitzy @Ritzyizzo
Grabbing Waller was a HUGE W for the @Giants
Jason McIntyre @jasonrmcintyre
WOW
Giants, residence run. Waller practically traded to Packers final yr https://t.co/22fq1bf2ZI
Joe Pantorno @JoePantorno
Completely MASSIVE deal for the #Giants to get Darren Waller — and an enormous goal/safety blanket to work with Daniel Jones for years to return.
Craig Hoffman @CraigHoffman
Biiiiiiig swing by the Giants. Waller was over 1100 yards in 2019 and 2020. Battled accidents since, however is an absolute monster when wholesome. https://t.co/UwZq3DdTqo
Luke Sawhook 🪚🪝 @lukesawhook
Darren Waller is a HUGE win for Daniel Jones.
The Giants have struggled to discover a high-end goal for Jones, and now they’ve one in Darren Waller.
In the event that they draft a WR on the primary two days of the Draft, they’ve a legit supporting solid for his or her QB.
Andrew Siciliano @AndrewSiciliano
Darren Waller and Daniel Bellinger is a fairly darn good TE room for the Giants.
Kevin Bunk @KevinBunk1
Nice transfer by Joe Schoen. Low danger due to Waller’s dangerous yr final yr. Upside when wholesome is big. Huge weapon for Jones and with 2 promising TEs, the stress to amass a WR1 is far much less. #Giants https://t.co/zyzVZDYJuL
Nick Collinson @NickACollinson
Waller to the Giants is a superb decide up #NFL
Jordan Raanan @JordanRaanan
That is the form of artistic transfer that Joe Schoen wanted to search out to be able to improve the weapons for Daniel Jones. The could be a nice transfer IF they’ll preserve Darren Waller on the sphere. Has performed simply 20 of 33 video games previous two seasons. He is 30 years previous.
Ray Carsillo @RayCarsillo
I am very excited by the Darren Waller commerce by the Giants simply now. #NFL #NYG
Robert Pisciotti @rjpisciotti59
Giants get Waller for a third spherical decide .. nice transfer in my thoughts.. simply one other weapon for Jones.. #Giants
Waller had over 1,100 receiving yards in back-to-back seasons in 2019 and ’20, though accidents have slowed him down over the previous two years. At his greatest, he is nonetheless one of many high pass-catching tight ends within the NFL.
His presence ought to present a big enhance to the Giants offense that had nobody with over 800 receiving yards final yr. With Darius Slayton and Richie James each free brokers, the workforce does not have any returning gamers with over 400 receiving yards final yr.
This restricted the manufacturing for Jones, who threw solely 15 touchdowns in 2022 regardless of his improved effectivity and a career-best 92.5 score.
Followers see the most recent commerce as a giant transfer to assist Jones take the following step as a franchise quarterback.
