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The 2023 NFL Draft is mere weeks away. There's a lot of intrigue at the top, of course, but just as interesting is what might happen near the end of the first round. That's where the playoff teams are drafting (for the most part), after all. One such team is the New York Giants, who surprised almost everybody by going 9-7-1 during the regular season and then defeating the Minnesota Vikings in the first round of the playoffs before falling to the eventual NFC champion Philadelphia Eagles in the divisional round. New York has already had an eventful offseason, and has 10 selections in the upcoming draft. The Giants re-signed Daniel Jones (four years, $160 million total, $82 million fully guaranteed) and franchise-tagged Saquon Barkley, entering the 2023 offseason lighter on cap space than one would have expected around this time a year ago. Still, New York was able to swing a trade for tight end Darren Waller, sign linebacker Bobby Okereke, bring back wide receivers Isaiah Hodgins, Sterling Shepard and Darius Slayton, supplement them with Parris Campbell and Jamison Crowder and fortify the defense with Rakeem Nunez-Roches, Bobby McCain and Amani Oruwariye. With the exception of Waller, none of the players the Giants brought in necessarily represents a significant enough upgrade to forego drafting a player at the same position. (Okereke is a big upgrade on last year's Giants linebackers, but he's not a star-caliber player himself.) That means New York can go in any number of directions when it comes on the clock with the No. 26 overall pick at the end of this month.