CBS Sports' Latest Giants Mock Draft Takes a Bold Direction

CBS Sports' latest Giants-only mock draft puts a bigger emphasis on one particular area.

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QB or not QB? As far as CBS Sports' Josh Edwards is concerned, the answer for the New York Giants is crystal clear.

In his latest Giants-only seven-round mock draft, Edwards has them selecting LSU receiver Malik Nabers with the sixth overall pick in the draft, a move that probably wouldn't irk many.

But what he does with the next five picks might draw some heavy criticism because no quarterback is mentioned among them.

With their second-round pick, Edwards has the Giants taking Minnesota safety Tyler Nubin. He wrote that Nubin "is a smart, instinctual safety with great ball production throughout his collegiate career" and would make for the ideal replacement for Xavier McKinney, who signed with the Green Bay Packers last month.

Edwards added another defensive back, Arkansas defender Dwight McGlothern, in the fifth round with the pick New York obtained from Carolina in the Brian Burns trade (the two teams swapped fifth-round picks). Otherwise, the rest of the picks in Edwards' draft center around the trenches, with two offensive linemen (Cooper Beebe of Kansas State in the third round and Elijah Klein of UTEP in the sixth) and defensive lineman Justin Eboigbe of Alabama in the fourth round, of whom he said, "throws blockers around as though they were children." 

But again, no quarterback among the picks, the first mock draft believed to have taken such an approach.

Edwards' logic isn't far off. The Giants were regularly beaten in the trenches, particularly by their division opponents. So, unless they upgrade those areas as much as possible, they could have more of the same results on both sides of the ball as they've had in the past.

And yes, the Giants need to add to the defensive secondary, both at safety and cornerback, the latter of which they don't have a clearly defined CB2.

But to pass on a quarterback considering incumbent Daniel Jones's injury history, his contract, and the fact that there are still questions after six seasons as to what he is and what he isn't, that's a head-scratcher we wish Edwards had addressed in his piece to better understand why he felt it more urgent to double up on offensive linemen even though New York added five such players -- Jon Runyan Jr, Aaron Stinnie, Austin Schlottmann, Matt Nelson, and Jermaine Eluemunor--to the mix.

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