The New York Giants certainly needed an offensive tackle in this year’s NFL Draft, but it’s not a bad thing to garner a significant amount of depth for that position group as a whole. Big Blue kept this notion in mind when making the ultimate decision to select Oregon guard Shane Lemieux in the fifth round.
Lemieux portrays a great deal of talent, toughness, and grit, having twice earned second-team All-Pac-12 honors. This is all the more impressive when you consider some of the programs in that conference — Stanford, Cal, Washington, Utah, as well as Southern California.