Fantasy Football ‘25: New York Giants Fantasy Preview

August is here at last, and the NFL preseason has kicked off! If you haven’t started prepping for your drafts in season-long redraft fantasy leagues, it’s time to get going. You can check out all of my preliminary preseason rankings and tiers, and other draft prep articles, at this link. I’ll have a lot more content for you as the month rolls along.

Big Blue View covers all things NY Giants. So today I’m going to focus on one team and one team only. That’s right, it’s time for my annual New York Football Giants fantasy preview!

Let’s start with a little game. See if you can guess what these numbers represent: 31, 31, 15, 30, 31. Give up? That’s the Giants’ ranking in points scored since 2020. Their ranking in total offense are similar for those five seasons, and last season the Giants were one of only four teams to average less than 300 yards of offense per game. Ugh.

Big Blue has featured one of the NFL’s most anemic offenses for half a decade, and while that prolonged malaise hasn’t completely doomed the Giants’ players from a fantasy perspective, it hasn’t helped. The Giants have been an offense to (mostly) avoid for fantasy for most of the 2020s. They head into this season with the same Head Coach and Offensive Coordinator as last year, and are projected to have as many as 10 returning starters on offense. The one notable change is at quarterback, plus some offensive line re-shuffling. Will it make a difference? Let’s take a look.

The big bright spot last season was sensational rookie receiver Malik Nabers, who quickly established himself as a high-end option at his position, and gives the team a true playmaker to build around. But he and the rest of the offense were plagued by inconsistent play from the offensive line and more importantly, sub-par performance from several different starters at the quarterback position. The QB room has been overhauled almost entirely and now features veterans Russell Wilson and Jameis Winston, and rookie Jaxson Dart. It’s an upgrade overall, but will it be enough to tip the scales for the entire offense? We’ll see soon enough.

I’ll go position-by-position for today’s exercise. All rankings shown are for Half-Point PPR, are on a Fantasy Points Per Game (FPPG) basis, and exclude the final week of the season. Preseason draft rankings represent Expert Consensus Rankings (ECR) as of August 3.

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Quarterback

Wilson is expected to open the season as the starter, but at some point he’s likely to give way to the rookie Dart. Wilson has been a steady mid-range fantasy QB2 for the last few seasons and his veteran presence should provide some professionalism and stability, but not a ton of upside. Winston would bring more upside, but with it more volatility. A full season of him under center could mean 130 catches, 1,700 yards, and double-digit TDs for Nabers. Just saying…

In one-QB leagues none of the Giants quarterbacks is worth drafting, even as a backup. That’s partly because the position is so deep with strong options, but also, the uncertainty surrounding how many games each Giants’ QB will start pushes the value down. In Superflex/2QB leagues, Wilson is at best a lower-end QB2 but more likely a third quarterback. Wilson’s current ECR is QB30. Dart and Winston can live on the Waiver Wire as they await their potential turns. Winston is always a fun roller-coaster ride when he does get in. It’s hard to know what to expect if/when Dart gets his chance.

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Running Back

The Giants’ backfield is one of the harder ones to handicap, as there are multiple backs in the mix with no clear alpha, as of now. 2024 fifth-round pick Tyrone Tracy was a very pleasant surprise as a rookie. He outplayed Devin Singletary and ran for almost 900 yards as a rookie, which was second only to Bucky Irving. Tracy was fantasy-relevant for a good chunk of the season and with a (hopefully) better O-line and quarterback room in 2025, the Giants’ running game should have some value this season and especially if the team can stay competitive and have balanced game scripts in the second halves of more games.

The complicating factor for Tracy is the addition of Cam Skattebo, who the Giants took in the fourth round of the 2025 draft. Camp reports on Skattebo have been promising (but do keep an eye on the hamstring injury he recently suffered), and he showed a three-down skillset at Arizona State where he had more than 1,700 rushing yards to go along with 45 catches for 605 receiving yards in 2024. With Singletary also in the mix, it’s hard to project how the opportunities will be divvied up, and how that might change as the season goes on. Right now Tracy has an ECR of RB31 while Skattebo is at RB36, and when you see teammates with draft rankings that close together it usually reflects uncertainty from the rankers. The good news is that both backs are ranked outside the Top-85 players, meaning you should be able to get them somewhere in the Round 8-9 range. Either or both could be good values at that price.

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Wide Receiver

For better or worse, the Giants haven’t had many true studs for fantasy in the last 25 years. I’m not talking about very good fantasy assets – I’m talking about first round picks, and/or players who are in the very top tier at their position. Odell Beckham, Jr. got there for a few years in the mid-2010s, as did Saquon Barkley a half-dozen or so years later. But that’s it.

Enter Nabers. The former L.S.U. star is coming off the kind of standout rookie campaign that immediately propelled Beckham and Barkley to fantasy stardom. He was targeted 170 times in 2024, which was second only to Ja’Marr Chase’s 175. But Nabers missed two games with a concussion and his 11.3 targets per game led the NFL. More stats to turn your head: He also led the NFL with a 34.9% team target share, and was third in the NFL with a 36.6% team target share in the red zone. You just don’t see rookies do that, but it became clear by Week 2 that he’s a special player who gets open all over the field, can make contested catches, and demands that kind of usage. Nabers turned that insane target volume into a 109-1,204-7 stat line and finished his rookie year tied with Mike Evans as the WR7. Right now his ECR is WR5, and overall player 8, meaning he’s a middle-to-back-of-the-first round pick for 2025. I have him ranked as the WR4.

The Giants should have steadier quarterback play in 2025 (at least to start the season), and hopefully that will translate to more sustained drives and scoring chances, which should benefit Nabers. The team also has the hardest schedule in the NFL, and that could also benefit Nabers if they’re chasing points week after week. His efficiency wasn’t all that great last season, but some of that can be blamed on the carousel of shaky QBs that Big Blue rolled out. There’s more meat on the bone to be had, and the arrow on Nabers is pointing up in year two.

Nabers wasn’t the only receiver on the Giants who was busy. After two injury-plagues seasons to start his career, shifty Wan’Dale Robinson caught 93 balls on 140 targets in 2024, tied with D.J. Moore for 10^th among wide receivers in total targets. He’s more attractive in Full point PPR than in Half, but either way, he should continue to win from the slot and is a useful piece for depth. You’ll be able to get him with a pick late in drafts (current ECR = WR67, player 167 overall).

Deep threats Darius Slayton and Jalin Hyatt will mostly go undrafted in standard-sized leagues, which makes them Waiver Wire players to start the season. Barring something unexpected or injuries to the receivers ahead of them, they likely won’t have much value in 2025.

Tight End

Like Tracy and Nabers, presumptive starter Theo Johnson is part of the Giants’ excellent 2024 draft class. He was taken in the fourth round and like most players at his position, he wasn’t a big part of the passing offense as a rookie. Part of that was due to injury, as he only suited up for 12 games. He should improve on his meager pass-catching totals from 2024 (29-331-1 on 43 targets), but it’s hard to know how big his role will be. The Giants haven’t had a fantasy-relevant tight end since Evan Engram left the team. Could Johnson step up in a big way? It’s not probable, but it’s certainly possible, and the 6-foot-6, 250-pounder did score seven TDs in his final season at Penn State. He’s one of a large number of “deep sleeper” tight ends for 2025. His current ECR is TE35 (and he’s barely inside the Top-300 overall), meaning he’s going undrafted. Keep him on your Waiver Wire watch list.

Kicker

Graham Gano is a solid veteran kicker, but he’s not on a team with a potent offense and he kicks outdoors. There are at least 15 better choices with more weekly upside. He’s also a Waiver Wire guy.

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Defense/Special Teams

While the Giants only won three games last season, their D/ST ranked 21st in fantasy points. Not great, and it wasn’t a unit that got started much in fantasy. But that’s not terrible either. The Giants’ defense should be better this season, and more to the point, their pass rush should be among the league’s most ferocious with the addition of third overall pick Abdul Carter, who many experts considered the best player in the draft. The Giants leaned into a strength with the selection of Carter, as they recorded 45 sacks last season, tied for eighth most in the NFL. If they can stay close in more games, and put teams in obvious passing situations more frequently, their pass rush should get home more than that in 2025. Don’t be surprised if the Giants’ pass rush is able to generate a decent number of turnovers. I think the Giants’ D/ST has a legitimate shot to finish as a Top-12 unit this season. I’m not recommending that you draft them to be your starting unit, but definitely keep an eye on them.

That’s a wrap. The bottom line is that the team will probably be a bottom-third, lower-scoring offense once again, but it should show some improvement across the board, and be less of a fantasy wasteland this year.