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With their first fourth round selection Deandre Baker Jersey Draft , the Giants pick Western Illinois DT Khalen Saunders and are back on the clock"WhiteFanposts Fanshots Sections New York Giants NewsGiants Training Camp 2016Giants vs. Eagles 2015, Week 172019 NFL Draft2019 Big Blue Draft-A-Thon: Giants select DT Khalen Saunders, On the clock for pick 132New,41commentsWith their first fourth round selection, the Giants pick Western Illinois DT Khalen Saunders and are back on the clockEDTShareTweetShareShare2019 Big Blue Draft-A-Thon: Giants select DT Khalen Saunders, On the clock for pick 132John David Mercer-USA TODAY SportsThe first pick of the fourth round for our Big Blue Draft-A-Thon is in the books, and Big Blue View has selected Khalen Saunders (iDL, Western Illinois) for the New York Giants at 109th overall. Khalen Saunders is a small-school prospect but he could well be a steal at the beginning of the fourth round. He made waves for himself at the Senior Bowl, and not just for his ability to back handsprings at 320 pounds. He is both powerful and agile (exactly the kind of defensive tackle the Giants like) and gave big-school offensive linemen a serious run for their money. He also had one of the most touching moments when he made time to go home for the birth of his daughter, and still made sure to be back in Mobile to play in the Senior Bowl, rather than just stay home because the scouts left.After trading Eli Apple to the New Orleans Saints for a fourth round pick, the Giants are back on the clock with the 132nd overall selection. Picks So Far110. Jacksonville Jaguars - Anthony Nelson (EDGE, Iowa)111. Cincinnati Bengals - Sione Takitaki (LB, BYU)112. Detroit Lions - Jahlani Tavai (LB, Hawaii)113. Buffalo Bills - Darrell Henderson (RB, Memphis)114. Baltimore Ravens - Ross Piersbacher (iOL, Alabama)115. Green Bay Packers - David Long (LB, West Virginia)116. Carolina Panthers - Dennis Daley (OT Deandre Baker NFL Jersey , South Carolina)117. Miami Dolphins - Antoine Wesley (WR, Texas Tech)118. Atlanta Falcons - Max Scharping (OT, Northern Illinois) 119. Green Bay Packers - Mecole Hardman (WR, Georgia)120. Cleveland Browns - Gerald Willis (iDL, Miami)121. Minnesota Vikings - Alize Mack (TE, Notre Dame)122. Tennessee Titans - Marquise Blair (S, Utah)123. Pittsburgh Steelers - Will Harris (S, Boston College)124. Baltimore Ravens - Justin Hollins (EDGE, Oregon)125. Seattle Seahawks - Dillon Mitchell (WR, Oregon)126. Denver Broncos - Te’Von Coney (LB, Notre Dame)127. Chicago Bears - Mike Bell (S, Fresno State)128. Philadelphia Eagles - Kingsley Keke (iDL, Texas A&M)129. Dallas Cowboys - Kaden Smith (TE, Stanford)130. Indianapolis Colts - Daniel Wise (iDL, Kansas)131. Los Angeles Chargers - Kris Boyd (CB, Texas)132. Buffalo Bills - Michael Jackson (CB, Miami) Because of how the board fell this time, with roughly 20 wide receivers and running backs Deandre Baker NFL Draft , I ultimately DID decide to break my own rules and am listing BPA at positions of need for the Giants. Best Players Available EDGE 153. Joe Jackson (EDGE, Miami)155. Sutton Smith (EDGE, Northern Illinois)192. Jalen Jelks (EDGE, Oregon) Linebacker165. Germaine Pratt (LB, NC State)168. Emeke Egbule (LB, Houston)Safety161. Zedrick Woods (S, Ole Miss)167. Mike Edwards (S, Kentucky)187. Marvell Tell (S, USC)Cornerback159. Corey Ballentine (CB, Washburn) 172. Mark Fields (CB, Clemson)The New York Giants Are On The Clock(reminder, all round today will only last 45 minutes) It’s not yet time for a final grade, but it’s fair to begin keeping score"WhiteFanposts Fanshots Sections New York Giants NewsGiants Training Camp 2016Giants vs. Eagles 2015, Week 17New York Giants NewsValentine’s Views: The Giants are now clearly Dave Gettleman’s teamNew,254commentsIt’s not yet time for a final grade, but it’s fair to begin keeping scoreEDTShareTweetShareShareValentine’s Views: The Giants are now clearly Dave Gettleman’s teamBrian Spurlock-USA TODAY SportsI am often asked to put a grade on or otherwise judge the work done to date by New York Giants general manager Dave Gettleman.Anyone who reads my work or listens to the ‘Valentine’s Views’ podcast regularly knows that my chosen stance has been to defer — to say that we don’t yet have enough evidence to judge whether Gettleman was the right choice as general manager for the Giants.That remains my view. Just Saturday, in fact, I defended Gettleman when I felt a reader had asked a misguided and misinformed question in our weekly mailbag. But ... yes Deandre Baker Buffalo Bills Jersey , it’s time for there to be a “but.”It’s time to begin keeping score.Gettleman has now been in charge of two full offseason cycles. He has had two full drafts. The roster that will represent the Giants in 2019 is his.I have long maintained that Jerry Reese created the mess the Giants have been in for the past few years. He dug the hole. Tom Coughlin and Ben McAdoo didn’t dig the hole. Gettleman didn’t dig the hole. Eli Manning, despite what some would like you to believe, didn’t dig the hole. He fell into it.Gettleman was hired to pick up Reese’s crumbled pieces and put the Giants back together again. We are far enough into this process now that once the games begin this fall it will be fair to begin passing judgment.Reese’s pieces are gone.Few remnants of the Reese era remain.Odell Beckham Jr., Olivier Vernon, Damon Harrison, Landon Collins, Eli Apple, Ereck Flowers, Justin Pugh, Weston Richburg, Bobby Hart and others brought in by Reese are just memories. Zak DeOssie, the Giants’ Jurassic snapper, is still around. Janoris Jenkins has somehow survived the roster upheaval. Only a handful of Reese draft picks — Evan Engram, Sterling Shepard, Dalvin Tomlinson, Wayne Gallman, Paul Perkins, B.J. Goodson Infant Daniel Jones Jersey , Avery Moss — have a chance to be Giants when the 2019 season opens. Not all of those guys are going to make the season-opening 53-man roster.The Giants are now Getty’s GuysGettleman has the head coach who came in with him, and whose hiring he approved of.He has the future franchise quarterback everyone knew he would have to draft, and whose success or failure his legacy as Giants’ GM will forever be linked to. He got that quarterback not from the historic 2018 class or the said-to-be-loaded 2020 class, but by falling in “full bloom love” with one from what analysts believe to be a weaker 2019 class. “In three years we’ll find out how crazy I am,” is what Gettleman told Peter King about the backlash from his selection of Jones.devalues the running back position and says you can’t be successful that way.We will know if he was right to put his faith in Eli Manning, or if doing so just delayed the inevitable transition and set the Giants back.We will know if Gettleman was right to ship Beckham — and Vernon — Cleveland. We will know if he was right to stiff-arm Collins and let him go to the NFC East rival Washington Redskins.We will know if his draft choices have been right.We will know if, as Diamond said, he has made more right decisions than wrong ones — enough to get the Giants back to being a good football team.So, no, you can’t yet give Gettleman a final grade. Not even close. You can, though, begin to keep score.About Landon Collins and Josh NormanYou probably noticed this week that ex-Giant Landon Collins and ex-Panther Josh Norman, now members of the Redskins, each said that Gettleman had basically done their new team a favor this offseason. You may have also noticed that we didn’t rush to make headlines of those claims here at Big Blue View.Collins said the Redskins “stole the best quarterback” in the draft thanks to Gettleman drafting Jones and leaving them Haskins. Norman said Gettleman is “winning for” the Redskins with his decisions.They both might end up being right, but their comments are also predictable. Neither is a Gettleman fan as both are in Washington because Gettleman decided not to pay them the big-money deals they sought — and got from the Redskins. I just can’t get all fired up about them.Tweets of the weekMaking a difference in people’s lives — not winning and losing football games — is what is truly important. Here are a few examples of people doing that:This next one has nothing to do with the Giants. It deserves, though, to be shared.