5 NY Giants whose stock plummeted leading up to Week 1

NY Giants QB Tommy DeVito

A year ago, Tommy DeVito Mania ran wild all over New York and New Jersey, as the NJ product went from being an unknown undrafted free agent quarterback to the flavor of the week with his run and winning streak. The honeymoon period wore off quickly though once he started to lose games.

DeVito did have a week where he looked like he would win the primary backup job over Drew Lock due to Lock’s ineffectiveness and injury in the preseason, but that feeling wore out again once the Giants played against the Texans and Jets. In those games, DeVito didn’t look like anything special. A year ago, DeVito played well enough to where he deserved a roster spot and eventually did get one.

Fast forward to a year later, and DeVito is on the Giants team because of injury concerns for Jones and Lock over DeVito deserving to be on the team. After getting professional experience a season ago, DeVito looked like a quarterback who didn’t deserve to get drafted and struggled to shine and impress against backups who might be on practice squads or looking for work elsewhere in the league.

For DeVito’s sake, his best chance may be to get out of the Giants completely and go elsewhere to start over, which may be in 2025. Jones will be given every opportunity to be the starter and run the offense. DeVito is likely not seeing the field again unless injuries happen.

In just a short year, we went from Tommy Cutlets being the toast of the town to wanting him to get out of town. Sometimes, that’s the way it is.