For the first time in over two decades, the Giants have a new brain trust running their draft, and that makes trying to predict what the team will do very, very difficult. Not that they weren’t already one of the most unpredictable teams in the draft.
What goes into a draft is the work of many people, and it doesn’t all fall on one person. Dozens of people provide input for every draft class. Zaidi wasn’t the even the top man in Los Angeles — he was under Andrew Friedman — but as GM, his opinion or deferral power weighted heavily.