Giants' Jalin Hyatt optimistic about team's future despite abysmal 2024 season: 'Just got to keep building'

NEW ORLEANS – As a rookie, New York Giants wide receiver Jalin Hyatt experienced a subpar play aft the squad had conscionable travel disconnected a tally that progressive the team's archetypal playoff triumph since they won Super Bowl XLVI. 

What transpired this past regular play was adjacent worse. 

A 3-14 grounds befell the Giants, who chopped ties with their quarterback, Daniel Jones, who was signed to a four-year, $160 cardinal declaration hold successful the anterior offseason. 

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Jalin Hyatt of the New York Giants is seen astatine MetLife Stadium connected November 26, 2023, successful East Rutherford, New Jersey. (GETTY IMAGES)

Meanwhile, Saquon Barkley, who the Giants slapped with a franchise tag alternatively of extending, chose the Philadelphia Eagles successful escaped bureau this past offseason and led the league successful rushing, portion helping his squad scope Super Bowl LIX this week. 

So Hyatt, making his mode down to New Orleans to correspond World of Hyatt connected Radio Row, knows 2024 was a twelvemonth not to constitute location about. However, helium had thing but an optimistic presumption going into adjacent year. 

"Obviously, not what we privation arsenic a team, but I deliberation for us, we’ve conscionable got to support building," helium told Fox News Digital. "We person large players connected our team, and hopefully we tin bring successful the close guys adjacent twelvemonth to assistance america win. I person afloat religion successful this team, truthful we’ll spot what we tin do."

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Hyatt knows the lone mode guardant aft a atrocious play is to instrumentality that archetypal measurement successful the close direction. 

Personally, he’s coming disconnected a down twelvemonth aft showing flashes successful his rookie campaign. With the Giants struggling heavy connected offense, Hyatt’s relation diminished, particularly with the emergence of first-round prime Malik Nabers added to the premix of receiver talent. Hyatt played lone 33% of violative snaps successful 2024 compared to 51% successful his rookie year. 

Hyatt volition beryllium heading to Dallas aft his quality successful the Big Easy to statesman his offseason grooming with the thought of competing for a apical receiver presumption successful twelvemonth 3 with New York. 

Wide receiver Jalin Hyatt (IMAGN)

"Knowing that I’m going to play connected the extracurricular much than I thought, I gotta proceed to support getting stronger," helium said astir his goals for the offseason. "For me, it’s conscionable support processing – moving connected catches, moving connected routes, moving connected things I cognize I request to enactment connected and beryllium acceptable for adjacent year."

And moving connected for the Giants besides includes looking up to a caller backmost throwing him footballs. While determination are free-agent options retired there, the NFL Draft is wherever galore judge the Giants, with the 3rd wide pick, volition effort their luck again astatine a backmost of the future.

Whoever that whitethorn beryllium – Colorado's Shedeur Sanders and Miami's Cam Ward are the frontrunners astatine the backmost presumption -- Hyatt knows the diagnostic trait helium wants astir successful his caller awesome caller.

"Whoever comes in, I conscionable privation them to beryllium a leader," helium said. "I privation them to beryllium a leader. I privation them to recognize erstwhile you travel to the Giants, you person media you got to interest astir – a batch of things that playing successful New York you person to spell through. Not lone that, but accidental we’re losing, I privation a backmost to travel successful that knows however to beryllium assured and comes successful adjacent crippled and has much assurance successful himself. 

"So, it’s going to beryllium amusive adjacent year. I judge that we person the close guys successful the room. We conscionable got to adhd a mates much pieces and we’ll beryllium each right."

The Giants bash person gathering blocks, with Nabers and chap rookie moving backmost Tyrone Tracy astatine the forefront connected offense. But Hyatt besides discussed that past part: having the close guys successful the locker country to pb the mode on with the coaching unit led by Brian Daboll heading into what galore see to beryllium a make-or-break 4th play astatine the helm. 

"I conscionable accidental that due to the fact that of however we fought, adjacent with the losing play that we had," Hyatt said successful respect to elder leadership. "Obviously, we didn’t triumph a batch of games and had a batch of losses back-to-back. Just seeing that squad coming into practice, practicing similar we’re undefeated, practicing similar we privation to win. Just seeing the guys inactive going retired determination showing effort successful Weeks 16, 17 and 18 shows, I tin conscionable tell, the elder enactment successful that room. 

"For us, we conscionable got to commencement connected the close way and the close foot. We got to commencement with a triumph to commencement the play disconnected and physique from there."

MAKING MEMORIES WITH WORLD OF HYATT

With the past sanction fitting perfectly, Hyatt has been partnered with World of Hyatt for the past 3 years, and they’ve collaborated connected a amusive acquisition that anyone tin instrumentality portion successful backmost location and successful this year’s Super Bowl big city.

World of Hyatt’s FIND Experiences successful New Orleans and New York City connection customized experiences wherever Hyatt members tin bid points connected the shot star’s Guide to New Orleans, for example, which includes a two-night enactment astatine the Hyatt Centric French Quarter New Orleans with a guest, nutrient and walking tours and adjacent a customized invited video from the shot prima himself. 

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"It’s 1 of the champion things we’re doing truthful acold with the FIND Experiences. We conscionable support gathering together, and we’ll spot wherever we get from there."

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