Despite Signing Mario Manningham, Giants Must Not Be Done Adding Wide Receivers

March 18, 2014   ·   Brad Gagnon   ·   Jump to comments

If you think of Mario Manningham strictly as a puzzle piece, the New York Giants' decision to bring him back from San Francisco makes a lot of sense. It's only a one-year contract, according to NFL Network's Albert Breer, and presumably at close to the veteran minimum. 
This is simple. The Giants have to replace Hakeem Nicks from an X's and O's standpoint. Victor Cruz lines up in the slot approximately 70 percent of the time, so New York needs a third receiver who can be split out wide opposite Rueben Randle. 
The Giants aren't flush with cash, though, especially after a spending spree during the first week of free agency, and no true starting-caliber wideouts remain in free agency. 
This could have been anyone on the diminishing open market. They swung and missed with Jacoby Jones earlier in the process, so Manningham comes from a group that includes similarly talented receivers such as Danario Alexander, Jacoby Ford, Darrius Heyward-Bey, Lance Moore...

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