Kenny Golladay’s Giants debut last season couldn’t have been much worse, averaging a career-worst 37.2 yards per game, all without scoring a single touchdown. Bad as it was, at least Golladay was actually playing, this year finding himself behind the anonymous likes of Richie James and Isaiah Hodgins. As proof of Golladay’s overwhelming ineptitude, the free-agent bust has played all of 25 snaps since Week 12, delivering two catches for 29 yards over that span.
Golladay, who the Giants rewarded with a $72-million contract ($40 million guaranteed) when they plucked him from the Lions last year, will assuredly go down as one of the worst signings in league history, a disastrous misfire for an organization that hasn’t had a 1,000-yard receiver since Odell Beckham skipped town after the 2018 season. Between injuries, coaching changes and a relative lack of effort, Golladay has been a square peg in a round hole, proving a poor schematic fit for Brian Daboll’s offense. To give a snapshot of how utterly useless Golladay has been, cementing his Giants legacy as a colossal failure, he would need 76 catches in Sunday’s regular-season finale to unlock a $750,000 contract incentive.
Though Golladay could see more playing time than usual against the Eagles (the Giants plan to rest their starters ahead of next week’s NFC Wild Card game), one would safely assume that bonus will go unfulfilled. Realistically, if not for injuries to Sterling Shepard and Wan’Dale Robinson, Golladay, who hasn’t scored a touchdown since Week 4 of 2020, would probably be out of a job right now. Regardless, the Giants’ Golladay experiment is probably nearing its end, with the 29-year-old expected to be a cap casualty this offseason.
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