What does this mean for the NY Giants’ wideout depth chart?
In all actuality, this is going to have a very small effect on the state of the NY Giants’ wide receiver depth chart, if there even is one at all.
I hardly considered Scott when compiling my ideal 2020 NY Giants wideout depth chart as Scott was likely going to be cut as one of seven (now five after more cuts) battling it out for the final two wide receiver spots on the depth chart.
Scott was about the biggest longshot out of that entire group that includes promising undrafted players like the 6’4” Binjimen Victor and the other two members of the NY Giants ‘Big 3’ of undrafted receivers — Austin Mack and Derrick Dillon had/have a much better shot of making Big Blue’s initial roster or the 12-man practice squad.
Dave Gettleman and Joe Judge deserve a ton of credit for assembling so much talent out of the UDFA WR group, as since the wideout class was s talented as a whole, numerous talented WR’s that would have been drafted any other year became UDFA’s; the NY Giants scooped three of those type of players right up, giving out a fair amount of cash (in the UDFA world) to do so.
The reasons behind Scott’s decision haven’t been released but is a head-scratcher, to say the least, as it’d be hard to imagine another NFL team taking a shot on him in 2021; and even though his contract will toll into 2021, it carries no dead money so Big Blue will have zero financial reasons to keep him.
As it stands, it looks like Corey Coleman will end up with one of those two spots on the official 53/55-man roster while one of those high-upside UDFA’s will snag the last spot.