Some NFL careers fade quietly. Others unravel in plain sight. For the Giants, the Evan Neal chapter has turned into the latter — a highly public, deeply frustrating decline that reached its final stage this weekend when the team placed the former seventh overall pick on injured reserve.

A hamstring injury during practice ended any remote chance of late-season action, but in truth, the Giants had already moved on long before Saturday’s transaction.

This wasn’t just an injury update. It was the organization acknowledging what everyone already knew: the Evan Neal era in New York is effectively over. And to be quite honest, it never even really began.

A first-round pick who never found his footing with the Giants

The Giants drafted Neal in 2022 believing they were getting a cornerstone tac

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