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Giants legend raves about ‘unbelievable’ spiritual successor

When the Giants used their first-round pick in the 2017 draft to select tight end Evan Engram, Mark Bavaro had one response: It’s about time.

Bavaro, arguably the greatest tight end in Giants history, wondered why it had taken so long for the organization to use a high draft pick on a tight end.

“The way the game is today, you need a big pass-catching tight end, a guy who can run like a wide receiver,” Bavaro told The Post on Monday during a charity golf event for the Ottis Anderson Scholarship Foundation in West Orange, N.