Browns: 3 New York Giant Players to game plan for

Evan Engram

It turns out when you cut two of your best tackling and coverage linebackers, teams try to exploit that. It’s clear that none of the starters on this unit should be expected back in 2021 as starters. Not after the way they’ve played all year, and certainly not after the way they played against the Ravens’ Mark Andrews. Andrews is a fine tight end but he doesn’t make waves like Rob Gronkowski used to or like Travis Kelce does currently. Yet, Andrews cut the Browns linebackers up with ease.

Evan Engram is even less on that elite-tight end scale and isn’t on Andrews’ level. Yet, if anyone doesn’t think Engram can’t roast the Browns defense like Andrews did, you’re kidding yourself. The Browns defense is among the league’s worst and has only ever survived as long as it had because Kevin Stefanski used the offense to prologue drives, keeping the defense off the field.

Regardless of who’s at quarterback for the Giants, they’re going to be throwing to Engram and throwing at him a lot. On the year he has 50 receptions for 526 yards. He’s shown to have the ability to bust out big days against bad defenses, see his performance against the Bengals for proof.

It might matter some who’s starting at quarterback but considering tight ends are described as “security blankets” by a lot in football, it would make all the sense in the world that Colt McCoy would target Engram more than usual.