New York Giants scored 22.4 points a game in 2025, 16th in the league. The model forecasts 18.7 for 2026, 31st. Every page in this series then asks the same two questions of that forecast — how many fantasy starters does an offense like this actually support, and is the market charging the right price for them — and answers both from the data rather than from the shape of the template. So the question for New York Giants is not about the offense at all — the market has the team priced about right. It is about Malik Nabers, Jaxson Dart and Isaiah Likely, where the model and the price come apart.
Who this offense actually is
Over 2021–2025 this offense scored 15.2/21.2/15.6/16.1/22.4 points a game and threw on 58.7/50.5/53.3/58.3/50.7 percent of its snaps. Two separate readings come out of that. Its level: 22.4 in 2025, 4.3 points above its own five-year mean of 18.1. Its trend: a five-year slope of +0.9 points a season, which is genuinely rising. Both point the same way.
Across the same window it has leaned further into the run (-0.8 points of pass rate a season). In 2025 it ran 61.0 snaps from scrimmage a game, 9th in the league. That is play volume, not pace: it counts snaps, and snaps are driven as much by first downs, turnovers and game script as by how fast a team chooses to play. Genuine situation-neutral pace is not in this dataset, so this series does not claim it.
What changed, and why
Running back moves from Tyrone Tracy Jr. to Cam Skattebo, receiver moves from Wan'Dale Robinson to Malik Nabers, tight end moves from Theo Johnson to Isaiah Likely and quarterback stays where it was. The model's scoring forecast moves -3.7 points a game against 2025, with pass rate +6.8 points and snaps -1.2 a game. The forecast delta is the result of those changes; the job changes above are the cause.
The roster moves behind it: Isaiah Likely comes in from BAL, 62 PPR points last year and Wan'Dale Robinson leaves to TEN (218 PPR points).
Coordinator, scheme and offensive-line movement are not in this dataset and are not recorded for this team. They are left blank rather than guessed at.
Where the fantasy points go
For 2026 the model grades this offense QB 29th, RB 30th, WR 30th, TE 30th. Its relative strength is quarterback — 29th, one of the worst environments in the league. Its relative weakness is running back — 30th, one of the worst environments in the league. And note the ceiling on that: quarterback is this team's relative strength and still only ranks 29th. Relative strength is not strength.
What the market believes, and whether it is wrong
Every roster in the league is priced twice: once at the market's ranks and once at the model's, both converted to expected fantasy points a game through the empirical price curve — what a player at that rank has actually returned, 2016–2025. Ranks are not linear in value, so summing them would flatter deep rosters and undersell top-heavy ones; points are.
No claim is available here. The market has this roster 10th, the model has it 5th — 5 places apart, inside the 8-place bar. Whatever else is true about this offense, “the market hasn't priced it in” is not a sentence this page has earned, so it is not written.
The biggest individual disagreements on this roster: Malik Nabers (-32), Isaiah Likely (-18) and Jaxson Dart (-12).
What offenses like this one have produced
Take the 2026 forecast — 18.7 points, 57.5% pass rate, 59.8 snaps, 2.6 red-zone trips — and find the 30 most similar offenses among all 320 team-seasons from 2016 to 2025. Closest matches: Detroit Lions 2021 (19.1 PPG, 2 starters); New Orleans Saints 2025 (18.0 PPG, 2 starters); Las Vegas Raiders 2018 (18.1 PPG, 1 starters); Green Bay Packers 2017 (20.0 PPG, 1 starters).
Those offenses produced a top-12 quarterback 7% of the time, two top-24 backs 43%, three top-36 receivers 77%, and a top-12 tight end 13%. That is where the starter count below comes from — it is measured off comparable offenses, not asserted.
Read off the 30 most similar offenses in 2016–2025, not asserted. A starter is a QB1, an RB2, a WR3 or a TE1 — top 12, 24, 36 and 12 at the position. Across all 320 team-seasons the average offense produced 2.6.
The player board
No player on this roster clears the bar as a buy. Malik Nabers, Jaxson Dart and Isaiah Likely clear it as a fade.
| Player | ADP | Market | Model | Edge | PPG | Role | Risk | Call |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Malik NabersWR | 32 | WR13 | WR49 | -32 | 11 | 78 | Low | FADE |
| Cam SkatteboRB | 42 | RB19 | RB19 | -2 | 15 | 74 | High | FAIR PRICE |
| Jaxson DartQB | 95 | QB12 | QB21 | -12 | 17 | 61 | Low | FADE |
| Isaiah LikelyTE | 122 | TE12 | TE28 | -18 | 3 | 65 | Low | FADE |
| Tyrone TracyRB | 137 | RB47 | RB27 | +8 | 10 | 57 | Low | FAIR PRICE |
| Greg DulcichTE | 193 | TE26 | TE71 | — | 5 | 65 | High | THIN MARKET |
Market and Model are ranks within the position. Edge is the model's position rank against the market's, after removing the drift that affects every player at that price — so it reads as “the model likes him this many places more than it likes the typical player who costs this much.” A call needs the edge to clear the position's bar (QB 7, RB 13, WR 11, TE 5 places), set at two-thirds of that position's own spread.
The three decisions
What would make this page wrong
- The scoring move doesn't happen. The forecast asks this offense for -3.7 points a game against 2025. If it simply repeats last season, the starter count below falls back toward what a 22.4-point offense supports.
- The pass-run balance doesn't move. The forecast has pass rate going +6.8 points to 57.5%. That shift is doing real work in the quarterback grade above.
The one thing to watch in-season
Watch red-zone trips per game. The forecast has it at 2.6 against 3.5 last season, and it is the input moving furthest from what this offense actually did. If it holds through the first month, the starter count on this page holds with it. If it snaps back, everything downstream of the forecast — the environment grades, the capacity number, the calls — moves with it.
Sources: Auto Draft Years FF Model workbook — Team Data By Year, Team Stat Ranking, 2026 Team Context; Auto Draft Years 2026 consensus board (16 authoritative market sources); Player outcomes 2016–2025, Pro Football Reference via the project dataset. Team environment grades, forecasts and player model ranks are proprietary. Every figure on this page is generated from the dataset at build time; none is typed in by hand.