The 2025 season was supposed to be Micah McFadden's breakout season. After being taken in the fifth round of the 2022 NFL Draft, he made 35 starts for the New York Giants over his first three seasons.During that time, he amassed 267 tackles, 159 of them solo, and 26 tackles for loss. He also had two forced fumbles, six sacks, six passes defensed, and an interception. All that production made Giants fans believe he was poised to take the next step last season, but that dream was over before it had a chance to materialize when, early in the first game of the season, McFadden suffered a foot injury that kept him on IR for the rest of the year. Now with new linebackers in the locker room, McFadden will be fighting to regain the 2024 form that allowed him to record his career high in tackles in only 14 games. It will help him show new defensive coordinator Dennard Wilson and his staff that he is a starting-caliber linebacker whom they can utilize as a rotational piece. The opportunity for this inside linebacker unit to have depth and versatility should excite fans, as they have not seen that type of depth in a long time. All of that is possible if McFadden can return to the form he showed in 2024. MICAH MCFADDEN, LBHeight: 6-foot-2