There was so much anticipation — some of it fairly breathless — when the Giants were on the clock with the No. 6 pick in the NFL draft and sitting there for them, still on the board, miraculously, was Josh Allen, the gifted pass-rusher from Kentucky.
Well, we all know how that went. The Giants took quarterback Daniel Jones and the Jaguars, with the very next pick, eagerly scooped up Allen.
This will do little to soothe the bruised psyches of those unable to get over the Allen denial, but the Giants did pick up a player in the draft with ties to him.