Giants head coach Joe Judge speaks during a press conference at the NFL football scouting combine in Indianapolis on Feb. 25. Credit: AP/Michael Conroy
Joe Judge certainly has a type.
He had said in the past that the “mold” for players he wanted was guys who are “smart, tough and fundamentally sound.” For three days during his first draft as coach of the Giants, those are exactly the ones he and general manager Dave Gettleman tended to select.
They made sure of that by doing Pinkerton-level background checks on many of their prospects and conducting in-depth virtual conversations with the players that often had little to do with football.