Kenny Golladay has rapidly become an expensive problem for the Giants. FrontOffice33 | TogetherBlue
signed his four-year, $72 million contract with the New York Giants, and the signing that seemed questionable from the beginning has only looked worse since.
Before getting to New York, Golladay was well on his way to establishing himself as one of the best receivers in this generation of the NFL. He had already earned the nickname “Babytron” in Detroit as the seeming successor of Calvin Johnson—a.k.a. Megatron—as the Lions’ young, new No. 1 receiver with a similar frame to Johnson’s. He was named to his first Pro Bowl after his second consecutive 1,000-yard season in 2019.
In 2020, Golladay was unable to build on the success of his monster season thanks to a couple of lower-body injuries—specifically a hamstring injury and then a hip injury. Still, when he was on the field, he was producing. In the five games he played that year, Golladay caught 20 passes for 338 yards and two touchdowns, averaging 16.9 yards per catch and on pace for 1,081 yards and six touchdowns in a full 16-game season.
As a third-round pick in the 2017 NFL Draft, Golladay wasn’t eligible for a fifth-year option after 2020, but the expectation was that he’d be one of the most in-demand free agents of the 2021 offseason. The free agent market for wide receivers that offseason was slim and Golladay was pretty clearly the cream of the crop. Former Titans receiver
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