There isn’t much good that comes out of a season like this 2025 Giants campaign.
But there are some individual players on this NFC bottom-feeder who have helped their own stock, whether they remain on the Giants or sign somewhere else in the spring.
Here are five Giants players who have increased their value despite the team’s results:
JAMEIS WINSTON, QB: The veteran quarterback is under contract for one more season with the Giants at a $5 million salary cap number and $3.95 million salary. But his on-field performance will make him an attractive trade candidate for QB-needy teams around the league. And the Giants might want to consider sweetening Winston‘s contract if they retain him, given his value to their locker room and their on-field product he has played.
In a league where Carson Wentz, Jake Browning, Mason Rudolph, Joe Flacco, Max Brosmer, Mitch Trubisky, Trey Lance, Andy Dalton and more have played significant snaps, Winston, 31, stands out as an undervalued commodity at the most important position in the sport.
WAN’DALE ROBINSON, WR: The Giants’ slot receiver ranked No. 11 in the NFL in receiving yards (828) entering Week 15 and has served as one of the Giants’ two security blankets in the absence of Malik Nabers, along with second-year tight end Theo Johnson, to help rookie quarterback Jaxson Dart acclimate in his first NFL season. He is entering unrestricted free agency in March.
Robinson, 24, Joe Schoen’s 2022 second-round pick, put up at least 80 yards and a touchdown three times in the Giants’ first 13 games this season, including a career-high 156 yards and a TD playing with Winston in an overtime loss at Detroit. He had been a replacement-level player prior to 2025. But the Giants’ coaching staff started sending him on more downfield routes this season, and Robinson responded.
He is a clear candidate for a new contract especially if Schoen is retained.
KAYVON THIBODEAUX, EDGE: Schoen’s No. 5 overall pick in 2022 is not a sack machine, but Thibodeaux played 2025 in the best shape of his young NFL career and provided power, edge-setting and pursuit opposite Brian Burns.
His lack of production in finishing those pressures on the quarterback might not land Thibodeaux, 24, a mammoth payday somewhere else, but he did demonstrate that he is a useful piece of the puzzle on the Giants’ defensive front specifically.
That became even more clear later this season when he was sidelined for several weeks in a row with a shoulder sprain, and rookie Abdul Carter failed to capitalize in any way on the opportunity.
Thibodeaux is tracking toward a fifth-year option salary of $14.7 million for 2026, but if he performs down the stretch, the Giants could lock him up on a solid but reasonable extension this coming offseason.
COR’DALE FLOTT, CB: Flott’s first consistently healthy season has been his best. The 2022 third-round pick ranked as Pro Football Focus’ No. 27 corner overall among CBs who had played at least 50% of their team’s defensive snaps through 14 weeks with nine passes defended and a forced fumble.
In a secondary that has been a colossal disappointment, Flott has been the lone silver lining, including his work in holding Lions receiver Jameson Williams without a catch during the Giants’ overtime loss in Detroit.
It will be interesting to see how the Giants handle this unrestricted free agent contract, given the potential for a lucrative market at such a premium position and the team’s disappointing investments elsewhere in the secondary.
DANE BELTON, S: The 2022 fourth-round pick has been an effective special teams player and leader and has stepped into a more prominent defensive role in his fourth NFL season. Belton, 25, ideally would not be a team’s starting, every down safety. But he can take the ball away when the opportunity is there. He is smart and reliable, which makes him easy for coaches to trust, plug in and play. He can run. And he will accept whatever role he receives, as demonstrated by his embracing of a key special teams role.
Belton will help whatever teams he ends up signing with in 2026 as an unrestricted free agent, whether he stays or goes.
