12 New York Giants Who Won't Return Next Season

10. Daniel Bellinger

When Darren Waller is healthy, you don't need your TE2 to be anything special. But "when he's healthy" has long been a caveat for Waller, who has played a full 16 games just twice in his eight-year NFL career.

And even if we're ignoring the need for a TE2 to be able to start when Waller is out, you still need them to be better than Daniel Bellinger.

After flashing some upside as a rookie, Bellinger had a really rough 2023 campaign. A quick surface-level glance at his stats might look good — 10.2 yards per catch, and 9.2 yards per target. Decent efficiency, right?

But when you factor in down-and-distance considerations, for example in Pro-Football-Reference's "success rate" metric, that disappears. Bellinger had only a 39.3% success rate.

Catching passes is only part of the equation for a tight end, but Bellinger wasn't good as a blocker either. PFF gave him a 56.9 run blocking and 45.4 pass blocking grade on the year.

A little rookie-season success from 2022 will certainly keep Bellinger in town until training camp, but being a late-offseason cut to save about $1 million in cap space could easily be in the cards if he loses a battle for the TE2 spot.