When the New York Giants drafted Matt Peart out of UConn at the end of Round 3 a season ago, the theory went like this — give the uber-athletic a year to hone his body and adjust to the NFL game and then he would be ready to be a starting NFL right tackle.
The Giants head into the 2021 season appearing to be all-in on putting that theory to the test. Will that turn out to be a good idea or a bad one?
This is part of what UConn coach Randy Edsall told me after the Giants drafted Peart:
“They [Giants] understood the kind of player that they were going to get and the value that was there when he was available.