The off-season, and draft season in particular, is a season of hope around the NFL. But even so, confidence seems to be contagious.
New York Giants head coach John Harbaugh has maintained since he was hired that he expects to make the 2026-2027 playoffs. And it seems as though fans have bought into Harbaugh’s confidence and an almost overwhelming majority of fans think the Giants can make the playoffs as well.
Taken as a whole, fully 84% of Giants fans believe that their team can make the playoffs
this year.
Most fans believe that the team is a couple pieces away from being a playoff contender, and that a strong draft can put them over the top. Considering the Giants hold the 5th and 37th picks in the draft, they should be able to add good starters who can contribute right from the start.
Interestingly, however, the second most common response is that the Giants were already a playoff caliber team in 2025. After all, the Giants held a quintet of double-digit leads into the fourth quarter, and as underdogs no less. They should have converted all — or at least some — of those leads into wins, which would have put them in playoff contention.
The most direct path to the post season would be through winning the division. The Giants are still considered the least-likely team to win the NFC East (+550 to win the NFC East, per FanDuel), and their over/under is currently set at 7.5 wins.
We also asked Giants fans if they thought signing former Giants’ receiver Odell Beckham Jr. would help the team get over the hump. While not unpopular, that move doesn’t have much support among the fanbase.
Despite the connections between Beckham and the Giants, and John Harbaugh, fewer than half of fans want the team to bring back the Giants’ former star receiver.
The Giants’ receiving room has questions. Malik Nabers is coming off of ACL and meniscus surgery (and a 51 percent catch rate before his injury), and the Giants’ top options besides Nabers are Darius Slayton, Darnell Mooney, Isaiah Hodgins, Calvin Austin III, and Jalin Hyatt — as well as TEs Isaiah Likely and Theo Johnson.
The overall athleticism of the group makes for potential dynamism, but they have all been unreliable in the past.
But whatever the urgency of the questions, and as good a story of Beckham’s potential comeback with the team that drafted him him may be, most fans don’t believe that Beckham is a potential answer.
