The Falcons may want to trade tight end Kyle Pitts, Fox Sports reported last week.
Could the Giants be a good landing spot for the former first-round pick? According to CBS sports, yes.
On Friday, CBS’ Cody Benjamin wrote that the Giants are one of three potential 2025 fits for Pitts, who has mostly been a bust in his first four years in Atlanta. The other two teams are the Dallas Cowboys and Jacksonville Jaguars.
Here’s what Benjamin wrote about Pitts’ fit in East Rutherford:
Are the Giants in a position to pay for immediate help? They may be short on salary cap space, but Pitts’ appeal, at age 24, is that he could also stick around for the long term. Head coach Brian Daboll would surely be OK pairing the big man with Malik Nabers, giving Russell Wilson an added safety valve for an offense sorely lacking secondary playmakers over the last few years. Assuming this link-up would extend beyond 2025, Pitts’ arrival would also bode well for Jaxson Dart, the presumptive quarterback of the future.
This wouldn’t be the first time general manager Joe Schoen traded for an ex-first-round bust in an attempt to revive their career. Two seasons ago, Schoen traded a seventh-round pick to the Arizona Cardinals for former No. 8 overall pick Isaiah Simmons. Simmons didn’t pan out quite how Schoen wanted, but he was still certainly worth the low-cost flier.
Perhaps Pitts, who was thought of as a generational prospect entering the 2021 draft, is worthy of a similar deal.
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