When the New York Giants acquired the 6-foot-5 Brandon Marshall last offseason, they thought he could give Eli Manning a tall, physical receiver that he hasn’t had since Plaxico Burress to be the missing piece to the Giants championship puzzle.
But instead, Marshall struggled mightily as he never quite got in sync with Manning and had numerous crucial drops in the first month of the season, particularly in the Giants’ Week 4 loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers (25-23).
Then in the Giants’ Week 5 loss to the Los Angles Chargers (27-22), he suffered an ankle injury that would require season-ending surgery.