Giants at Saints 2025, Week 5: Everything you need to know as Giants fall to 1-4

Anthony Del Genio

4 things we learned from the Giants’ 26-14 loss to the Saints

I should know better than to predict the New York Giants to win any game. Occasionally, like last week, I get burned for picking their opponent to win. Most of the time, though, you can’t go wrong picking against them. That’s one general thing I learned from the Giants’ awful 26-14 loss to the New Orleans Saints. Let’s look at a few specific things that we learned, though.

In my lukewarm prediction that the Giants would win today, one of my reservations was:

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Ed Valentine

Giants-Saints ‘Kudos & Wet Willies’: Giants give away a game they should have won

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Christmas came early for the New Orleans Saints as the New York Giants gift-wrapped them their first victory of the season with five turnovers, a host of bad penalties, drops and other assorted mistakes. Let’s get to the ‘Kudos & Wet Willies,’ which I will do my best not to fumble.

Daniel Bellinger — It has been a looooong time since the Giants used Bellinger as a weapon in the passing game. Sunday, Bellinger caught four passes for 52 yards, including an 18-yarder on the opening drive that set up a first-and-goal at the 1-yard line the Giants converted into a touchdown. Bellinger also had a 14-yard catch for a first down on that drive.

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Nick Falato

Instant grades: Giants get poor marks after Sunday’s ugly loss

The New York Giants traveled to New Orleans on Sunday and started the game HOT against the Saints with two offensive touchdowns on two drives. New York took a big 14-3 lead, and the defense was dictating to Spencer Rattler and the Saints’ offense. But mistakes would catch up to the Giants, who were reckless with the football. Darius Slayton, Jaxson Dart, and Cam Skattebo all fumbled the football, which led to a long fumble return for a touchdown and two field goals by Blake Grupe.

Dart also threw two interceptions, so New York lost the turnover battle, 5-0. The Giants were consistent with their undisciplined play in the penalty department with eight for 95 yards, including false start, holding, and defensive pass interference penalties. Yes, the red zone offense looked better – but a lot looked worse. Here is the Week 5 report card.

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Sam Kirk

Final score: Giants fumble, throw away game to Saints, 26-14

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The New York Giants watched a promising start unravel in spectacular fashion on Sunday, falling 26-14 to the winless New Orleans Saints at Caesars Superdome.

After building an early 14-3 lead behind two first-half touchdown passes from rookie quarterback Jaxson Dart to tight end Theo Johnson, the Giants’ offense completely imploded committing five consecutive turnovers that turned a potential road win into a collapse.

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Ed Valentine

Giants at Saints, Week 5: Live updates as Giants seek 2nd straight victory

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Dart carrying the ball even less securely than a loaf of bread.

The Giants get the ball to start the second half after the Saints won the coin toss and took the opening kick-off. Gunner Olszewski returned the kick-off to the 36 yard line.

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Ed Valentine

Giants-Saints inactives: Dexter Lawrence is playing

Dexter Lawrence will play for the New York Giants on Sunday against the New Orleans Saints. The team’s star defensive tackle, who did not practice all week due to illness is among the inactives for the 1 p.m. ET game.

That is good news for a Giants team seeking its second straight victory. The pass rush is not the same without him, and the run defense is already the league’s worst in terms of yards per rushing attempt allowed.

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Ed Valentine

Giants vs. Saints, Week 5: Numbers that matter

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Sam Kirk

Giants vs. Saints, Week 5: How to watch, stream, listen, wager

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The New York Giants travel to the Caesars Superdome this Sunday for a Week 5 matchup against the New Orleans Saints.

Kickoff is set for 1 p.m. ET, airing nationally on CBS, as Brian Daboll’s squad looks to build on last week’s win and climb back into the NFC relevance.

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NFL Week 5 betting advice: Giants-Saints picks and props

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Welcome to the New York Giants betting angle, Week 5 edition! Each week, I’m giving you my three favorite wagers for that week’s New York Giants game. My one rule: I won’t ever give you wagers that are less than -120. No gimmes!

The Giants head to the Big Easy this week to face the Saints, fresh off an emotional and hard-fought upset win over the Chargers, their first triumph of the season. The big news for Big Blue coming out of Week 4: Jaxson Dart sparked the team to a gut-check win and looks like he might have it, and star receiver Malik Nabers is done for the year with a torn ACL. So yeah, a lot happened in Week 4. I was at the game and can report that it was an emotional roller coaster.

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Ed Valentine

Ex-Saints CB has a warning for his Giants teammates

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Paulson Adebo returns to New Orleans this weekend, where he played the first four years of his career, with a warning for his New York Giants defensive teammates. Do not take Saints’ quarterback Spencer Rattler lightly.

Rattler, a fifth-round pick by New Orleans a season ago, is 0-10 as the Saints’ starting quarterback. That doesn’t matter to Adebo, who watched him all of last season.

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Ed Valentine

Big Blue View mailbag: Evan Neal, red zone, replacing Malik Nabers, more

Gregory Kolton asks: I was at the game on Sunday and my son and I were so happy to finally see a Giants win, but I thought the vast majority of the play calling was very uncreative (even for a rookie QB’s first game). Now that Nabers is out for the season (so bummed), I think Daboll and Kafka need to think differently. For instance, if Hyatt is not being used in the passing game, maybe the Giants could use him in a Cordarrelle Patterson-like role in the running game. He’s fast, he bulked up over the summer, and no one is throwing the ball to him, so he’s not cutting it as pure wide receiver, anyway. The Giants need to start thinking outside of the box and not run up the middle three plays in a row. What do you think?

Ed says: Gregory, that is an outside-the-box idea, for sure. I don’t think there is any chance, though, that we see Jalin Hyatt as a running back.

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Sam Kirk

Andrew Thomas feeling strong after return, focused on Saints

New York Giants left tackle Andrew Thomas is back on the field and feeling good.

After missing nearly all of last season due to a Lisfranc injury that required surgery, Thomas started his second straight game in Sunday’s win over the Los Angeles Chargers, playing all 76 snaps. He admitted there was some “normal soreness” after the game but emphasized that his conditioning, not his health, was the bigger adjustment.

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Ed Valentine

New York Giants host tryout for wide receivers, quarterbacks

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The New York Giants worked out four wide receivers and a pair of quarterbacks on Friday, according to the league’s transactions wire.

The wide receivers who worked out were:

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Ed Valentine

Giants-Saints final injury report: Dexter Lawrence (illness) still not practicing

New York Giants star defensive tackle Dexter Lawrence was held out of practice for a third straight day on Friday due to illness. Giants head coach Brian Daboll, though, expects Lawrence to be available Sunday when the Giants face the New Orleans Saints.

“I think he’s kind of getting over it right now,” Daboll said. We won’t practice him today, but he’s done a little bit inside with the trainers. We’re going to bring him out here. He should be good to go.“

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Ed Valentine

Jalin Hyatt, Beaux Collins have huge, if unfortunate, opportunities

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Malik Nabers, the New York Giants’ most explosive play-maker on offense, is gone for the remainder of the season with a torn ACL. He is, as quarterback Jaxson Dart has said, “one of one.” The Giants cannot and will not be able to conjure up a player who can do all of the things for them that Nabers could do.

They still, though, have 13 games to play. They have to find the best ways they can to run good offense and give rookie quarterback Jaxson Dart a chance to develop and succeed. Someone has to fill Nabers’ spot in the lineup and catch passes from Dart.

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Ed Valentine

NFL Week 5 picks, predictions: A winning streak for the Giants?

Do the Big Blue View contributors believe the 1-3 New York Giants can keep the home-standing 0-4 New Orleans Saints winless on Sunday? Check out our Week 5 NFL staff picks to find out.

Can the Giants make it two in a row? It’s something they haven’t done since November 26th and December 14th, 2023. The defense seems as though the new pieces are finally starting to settle in, while Dexter Lawrence and Darius Alexander are rounding into form. The big question is, as always, on the offense. Can Dart follow up his debut with another winning effort? Can the Giants open up the passing game with the Saints will surely trying to clamp down on the running game without Malik Nabers on the field?

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Ed Valentine

Giants-Saints ‘5 questions’: Jaxson Dart, how to attack the Saints, more

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With the New York Giants traveling to the Big Easy this week to face the New Orleans Saints, we turned to SB Nation’s Canal Street Chronicles for the scoop on the Saints. Nic Jennings answers our ‘5 questions’.

Ed: Let’s get right to it. As excited as the Giants are to have him, should the Saints have selected Jaxson Dart in the draft when they had the chance?

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Ed Valentine

Giants’ placekicking job a ‘week to week’ decision

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Jude McAtamney converted on two short field goals and an extra point in place of injured placekicker Graham Gano on Sunday against the Los Angeles Chargers. With veteran placekicker Younghoe Koo on the team’s practice squad, New York Giants special teams coordinator Michael Ghobrial would not commit on Thursday to McAtamney keeping the job.

“Although Jude did a really nice job for us and excelled with everything we were asking him to do, I think ultimately, you still treat that like a competition and every week is a new week,” Ghobrial said. “We’ll take a common-sense approach as we have more discussions as a coaching staff later in the week.”

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Ed Valentine

Giants injury updates: ‘Fluid’ situation at safety for Sunday

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Defensive tackle Dexter Lawrence (illness) was held out of practice on Thursday for a second consecutive day by the New York Giants. The biggest injury issues for the Giants heading into Sunday’s game against the New Orleans Saints might be at safety.

Tyler Nubin, who did not practice on Wednesday due to a groin injury, was expected to “do something” at practice on Thursday, according to head coach Brian Daboll. Daboll said he was “hopeful” that Nubin would be ready for Sunday.

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Ed Valentine

Giants’ run defense not Shane Bowen’s favorite topic

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New York Giants defensive coordinator Shane Bowen was chatting amiably with reporters on Thursday during his weekly press availability. Until the subject of the team’s leaky run defense came up.

Through four weeks, the Giants are tied for last in the league in rushing yards allowed per attempt, with each team giving up 6.1. The 153.0 rushing yards per game allowed by the Giants is 29th. The Giants have given up 1.5 rushing touchdowns per game, 29th overall.

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Nick Falato

Giants-Saints: What to expect when the Giants have the ball

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The New York Giants travel to New Orleans to face the 0-4 Saints this week. The Saints had a respectable loss in Buffalo against Josh Allen and the Bills, 31-19. It was a three-point game midway through the fourth quarter before the Bills finished the job. The Saints were blown out in Seattle in Week 3 and narrowly lost their two home games to the Cardinals and 49ers in Weeks 1 and 2, respectively.

The Saints are marching back into the Caesars SuperDome after a two-game road trip on opposite ends of the country, and they’ve been competitive each week other than in Seattle. Playing in New Orleans is challenging, and the Saints are playing better football than their record suggests.

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Chris Pflum

Giants at Saints: What to expect when the Saints have the ball

Can the New York Giants go on their first winning streak since 2023?

That’s what they’re looking to accomplish against the New Orleans Saints. While rookie quarterback Jaxson Dart has been the story of the Giants’ first win, it was the Giants’ defense that kept the Los Angeles Chargers to 18 points.

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Ed Valentine

Jaxson Dart could have been the Saints’ QB, now he will try to beat them

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If the New Orleans Saints had made a different decision on draft night, Jaxson Dart could be quarterbacking against the New York Giants on Sunday. Instead, Dart will be trying to lead the Giants to a second straight victory. And, perhaps, leave the Saints with a tinge of regret.

The Saints, with the No. 9 overall pick in Round 1 of the 2025 NFL Draft, could have selected Dart to give first-year head coach Kellen Moore a quarterback to try and build around. There were some in the draft community advocating for them to do just that. They passed, selecting offensive tackle Kelvin Banks instead.

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Sam Kirk

Carter on Giants’ defensive growth: ‘That’s our standard’

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New York Giants linebacker Abdul Carter says the team’s defense is starting to find its rhythm — but insists the group can’t get complacent.

Coming off the team’s first win of the season, Carter credited the strength of the Giants’ defensive front, highlighting how All-Pro defensive tackle Dexter Lawrence makes his job easier.

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Ed Valentine

Giants injury news: Four Giants held out of practice

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Three New York Giants did not practice on Wednesday as the team began its on-field preparations for Sunday’s Week 5 game against the New Orleans Saints.

Running back Tyrone Tracy (shoulder), defensive lineman Dexter Lawrence (illness), guard Greg Van Roten (veteran rest day) and safety Tyler Nubin (groin) were held out of practice. Head coach Brian Daboll mentioned the first three in his pre-practice press conference,

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