Cornerback · New York Giants

Paulson Adebo

No. 21 · 6th season

Sixth on the list, and the Giants are counting on it

Rankings like this don't come with a trophy. But they do come with expectations.

Paulson Adebo plays cornerback — the person whose job, on every play, is to cover the other team's best receivers and make it look routine. It is one of the loneliest positions on the field when things go wrong, and one of the easiest to take for granted when they go right. Adebo built his reputation doing it in New Orleans, and now he's in New York.

The Giants have him ranked sixth among their ten most important players heading into the season. That is a real number on a short list.

For a cornerback, landing that high in that kind of company says something. It means the people running the team see him as load-bearing — not a piece, but a pillar. That is a different kind of pressure than any individual matchup.

So now we find out if he plays like it.

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