4 Running Backs the Giants Can Sign to Pair With Devin Singletary

4. AJ Dillon, Green Bay Packers

The Green Bay Packers seem to be cleaning house in their running backs room and AJ Dillon is a name that the Giants should explore for a promotion to No. 1 back status. 

Like Alexander Mattison, Dillon has grown up in the Packers system behind the shadow of Aaron Jones, who was also released from the team Monday afternoon. Yet, with Jones dealing with injuries last season, Dillon sprung to the top spot and finished just shy of Jones’ numbers with 178 carries for 613 yards, an average of 3.4 yards and two touchdowns, his third straight outing of at least 600 yards rushing. 

Dillon is undoubtedly a workhorse who can be trusted to find those extra yards and make the critical first down plays that help teams win football games. He has converted 132 first downs in his four-year tenure with the Packers and really became an important short field weapon on the opponent side of the 50-yard line where he averaged 3.9 yards per carry. 

The Boston college alum has been a total bruiser over 1,700 yards after contact for an average of 2.98 yards and 92 missed tackles along the way. At 6 feet tall and 247 pounds, he could be a physical upgrade to Saquon Barkley just with a slight dip in the shifty athleticism that Giants fans were spoiled with on occasion from the latter. 

Dillon has remained very healthy with only two games missed in the past three seasons and could remove that concern from a Giants locker room that has dealt with the nagging injury bug for years now. He’s taken at least 178 handoffs in the same span which translates nicely to being effective as a lead ball carrier in a floundering rushing operation for New York. 

A pairing could see Dillon as the inside gap rusher and Devin Singletary as the outside zone guy, a combo the Giants haven’t had since the days of their Super Bowl runs. 

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