NFL free agency: Predicting where top 25 projected players land in 2022
By Peter Panacy
31. . Wide Receiver. New York Giants. Robby Anderson. 23. player
2022 NFL free agency: Robby Anderson to NY Giants
*Updated Oct 1st – Anderson signed three year contract extension worth $37.5 million with the Carolina Panthers*
There’s a lot to like about what NY Giants head coach Joe Judge has done in just his first year with the G-Men. And while the Giants offense was nothing spectacular, Judge’s defense did more than enough to suggest it can be a force within the NFC East for the next few years.
But, yes. That offense was bad.
Judge could go against the modern NFL grain and elect to be a run-first team, which wouldn’t be a bad idea. Yet there’s still a good chance New York wants to see if its young quarterback, Daniel Jones, can actually be a player worth building around. Right now, it’s looking more and more like a longshot. Yet Jones wasn’t exactly aided with proven weapons around him.
Getting a productive wide receiver like Robby Anderson would be smart, provided the Giants could pry him away from another rebuilding team, the Carolina Panthers, and put him out as a legitimate WR1 target at Jones’ disposal.
And it isn’t as if Anderson lacks production. Just check out his efforts over the last four years:
- 2017: 63 receptions, 941 yards, seven touchdowns
- 2018: 50 receptions, 752 yards, six touchdowns
- 2019: 52 receptions, 779 yards, five touchdowns
- 2020: 95 receptions, 1,096 yards, three touchdowns
Regardless what the Giants want to do under center in the immediate future with Jones, getting a player like Anderson would help make New York’s offense much more balanced and potent.