That's the word being put on the street by the Giants. There is a lot of smoke being blown around at this time of year, but if this is true it puts a damper on the Bucs plans to trade down with them or with anyone else.
I'm trying to think about why the Giants would start blabbing it around town that they aren't interested. Why clue in the other teams who might want to trade ahead of them to get him? So it could be an attempt to lull the other teams into letting him slide to 6. Or it could really be true.
Dianna Russini of ESPN reports the Giants are not heavily scouting Haskins and have no intent on taking him in April’s draft barring an unforeseen change.
“About a week after the Combine, I circled back with some [Giants] people like, ‘What are you thinking about Haskins? Do you guys like him? Do you think you are going for it with your No. 6 pick?’” Russini said on ESPN’s Breaking Big Blue podcast. “It was, ‘No, actually. We are not doing a lot of work on him.’ “I spoke to a few people. I’ll paraphrase one: ‘He doesn’t fit with us..."
