Tyler Nubin completed second on the Giants' protection in tackles as a rookie, an eye-opening statistic when you think about he suffered an ankle damage Dec. 8 in opposition to the Saints and missed the ultimate 4 video games.
The Giants, who made Nubin the primary security taken within the 2024 draft with the forty seventh choice, envision much more of a management function for the 24-year-old in Yr 2, now paired alongside free-agent signing Jevon Holland.
“I'm a giant Nubin fan,” head coach Brian Daboll mentioned earlier than Thursday's follow in East Rutherford. “Nubin is a professional. I feel he's a really younger participant, however he's acquired great management abilities.
“He's very, very good. He's vocal, not simply on the sector however within the group conferences, and I feel it's good so as to add Holland subsequent to him, who's one other vocal man who's accomplished it for some time. The mix of these two guys since OTAs has been very encouraging for me, and I do know for the defensive workers.”
Holland was signed away from the Dolphins on a three-year deal price $45.3 million, and the Giants additionally landed free-agent cornerback Paulson Adebo to fortify a revamped secondary.
“I feel we positively have numerous related ability units,” Nubin mentioned of Holland. “Issues that he does are issues that I Iike to emulate within the sport.
“He's a man that I Iooked at so much once I was in faculty [at Minnesota] coming into the league.”
As a rookie, Nubin completed behind solely linebacker Micah McFadden on the Giants with 57 solo tackles and 98 mixed in his 13 begins.
“Rookie yr was numerous studying, numerous new experiences for me, however I'm glad I acquired 'em,” Nubin mentioned. “All these experiences I can now put into my device belt, into my Rolodex of issues I can use to assist myself achieve success sooner or later.
“This yr, I'm simply centered on getting higher each single day, and changing into a frontrunner and main by instance. That's actually what I need to do.”
Nubin additionally has switched again to the uniform quantity he wore at Minnesota, 27, from the 31 he wore final season.
The quantity honors his late uncle, Steve King, a former defensive again at Michigan who died of a coronary heart assault at simply 41 in 2014. Nubin's father, Rodney, additionally wore the quantity as a school participant at Central Michigan.
“I positively need to preserve this legacy going for the household,” Nubin mentioned. “So it's tremendous particular to get again on this quantity, for certain.”
Nubin was one in all two rookie starters within the secondary final season — alongside nickel again Dru Phillips, who additionally returns.
“Tyler has helped me out a lot. It was nearly like final yr he wasn't even a rookie,” Phillips mentioned. “That child is so good, he got here in and knew the playbook from Day 1.
“It was cool coming in with him as a result of he helped me out, like I helped him out generally. We positively construct off one another.”
