When the New York Giants selected CB Sam Beal in the third round of the 2018 NFL Supplemental Draft, many questioned his future professional role.
Would the Western Michigan University product be the Giants No. 2 corner behind Janoris Jenkins and Eli Apple? Could he edge out Apple for the starting job? Could he play as a slot corner, sort of the role that Grant Haley played in 2018 for the G-Men?
All of those back-and-forth questions came to halt when Beal suffered a shoulder injury at the very beginning of training camp last July.