The best way the New York Giants can make sure first-round pick Jaxson Dart has a successful NFL career is to strengthen the offensive line charged with protecting him. Unfortunately for Big Blue, that may not be the case in 2025. But the 2026 NFL draft will offer GM Joe Schoen — assuming he’s making the pick — an opportunity to keep Dart upright and out of harm’s way.
In the latest 2026 mock draft from Pro Football Sports Network, the Giants land a blue-chip offensive tackle with the first overall pick in Alabama’s Kadyn Proctor.
“Proctor has experience run blocking in both gap and zone schemes, which helps him fit well with a Giants team that mixes both,” PFSN wrote. “While Proctor normally plays left tackle, they’d slide him to the right, where he can keep dominating physically at the line of scrimmage.”
I’m having so much fun doing 2026 draft prep on prospects that haven’t been debated to death yet
Alabama LT Kadyn Proctor is an early favorite. 6’7” and 360 lbs with refined hands, tremendous power. Good athlete for his size. My No. 2 overall guy so far pic.twitter.com/jL7DHSD8ug
— Jacob Infante (@jacobinfante24) May 4, 2025
Pairing Proctor with Andrew Thomas, who’s quickly become one of the NFL’s most promising young left tackles, would give the Giants their best pair of bookends in quite some time. Sure, there may be some PTSD among Giants fans if New York dips back into the Alabama offensive line to select another behemoth offensive lineman (see: Neal, Evan), but Proctor is a different level of prospect.
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The bigger takeaway from this mock draft is that the Giants hold the first overall pick. And if that happens, it means the season was an absolute disaster, even with the rebuilt quarterback room, headlined by Russell Wilson, and a defense that has a chance to be a top-five unit if all goes well.
Indeed, if the New York Giants are that bad in 2025, there will be a new GM and head coach making this pick. Whenever that happens, all positions are up for grabs, including quarterback. So, while Dart may be the quarterback of the future right now, if the Giants hold the first pick in 2026 with a new regime in place, we could be staring down the barrel of absolute draft chaos for Big Blue next April.
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