Adding another quality wide receiver alongside existing game-breaker Malik Nabers makes sense for the New York Giants, especially when a talented pass-catcher looks like the “odd man out” for the Green Bay Packers and is a viable trade candidate.
That’s according to Newsweek’s Evan Massey, who thinks Romeo Doubs will be available because “it’s clear that the Packers have an extremely talented wide receiver room for franchise quarterback Jordan Love. Unfortunately, they might have too much talent. Along with Doubs, Green Bay has Christian Watson, Jayden Reed, Matthew Golden, Dontayvion Wicks, and Savion Williams on the roster. Mecole Hardman is also with the Packers in training camp.”
Having too many talented wideouts sounds like a champagne problem, one the Giants would no doubt welcome. Yet, Massey believes the Packers “moving on from one wide receiver seems likely. Doubs could be the odd man out. In a contract year, Green Bay could choose to ship him off to a wide receiver-needy team for draft capital.”
The Giants make sense as a trade destination for Doubs, although Massey lists the Buffalo Bills, Cleveland Browns, Pittsburgh Steelers and San Francisco 49ers as other worthy candidates.
Giants Have Greater Incentive to Beat Trade Suitors to Romeo Doubs
If a queue of suitors is forming to trade for Doubs, the Giants should muscle their way to the front of the line. They need a credible supporting act for 2024 NFL draft sixth-overall pick Nabers.
The latter has been endorsed by a franchise legend as a talent capable of expanding the whole offense. It’s a realistic take because Nabers was a record-breaker as a rookie and already looks like one of the league’s elite at his position.
Doubs isn’t quite in the same bracket, but the 25-year-old knows how to stretch the field and find the end zone. He’s averaged 11.6 yards per reception throughout his career and scored 15 touchdowns.
This scoring grab against the Arizona Cardinals last season showed Doubs is intuitive enough to adapt on the fly and still get the job done. Meanwhile, this touchdown against the Seattle Seahawks in Week 15 proved 6-foot-2, 204-pound Doubs has the tenacity to fight through traffic and play above his size.
Doubs does his best work at the business end of the field, where he made eight catches from 10 red zone targets last season, per Player Profiler. He also got 15 deep targets, proof of a legitimate vertical threat and another reason the Giants need Doubs.
Giants Lack Other Versatile Receivers
What the Giants need are more receivers as versatile as Doubs. Returning veteran Darius Slayton is a useful deep threat, along with Jalin Hyatt, but the pair’s straight-line speed isn’t suited for much beyond “Go” routes.
By contrast, Wan’Dale Robinson is ideally suited to the slot, but he has work to do as a field-stretcher, despite a desire to get vertical more often, according to Dan Duggan of The Athletic.
The search for other options hasn’t been helped by a tough and resourceful veteran not taking his opportunities at training camp. It’s a problem general manager Joe Schoen can solve by engineering a cost-effective deal for Doubs, whose 2025 base salary of $3,406,000, per Spotrac.com, is well within the Giants’ means.
Doubs is also a free agent in 2026, so the Packers would surely be tempted to part company in exchange for a decent mid-round pick in next year’s draft.
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