In his best game of the season -- last week versus the Dallas Cowboys -- Darius Slayton finished with 5.6 fantasy points. His stat line: three catches, 56 yards. In his worst game of the season, Slayton finished with 0.7 fantasy points -- one reception, seven yards, on two targets. That was in Week 3 against the Cleveland Browns.

Darius Slayton is 27, a very young man in the real word. But he understands that “football is different. It’s like dog years.” Hence in the context of the Giants wide receiver room, he is an elder statesman to the likes of Malik Nabers (age 21),