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Representatives from the New York Giants met with J.J. McCarthy last week ahead of the 2024 NFL draft, according to NFL insider Jordan Schultz.

Schultz also reported Washington Commanders officials plan to have dinner with McCarthy on Thursday, the night before the Wolverines’ pro day.

The Giants and Commanders could both be in the market for a quarterback in the first round of the draft. In the case of the latter, however, many expect them to set their sights on a different target.

One of North Carolina’s Drake Maye or LSU’s Jayden Daniels is most frequently linked with Washington, which has the No. 2 overall pick. Maye was the choice in Bleacher Report’s most recent mock.

Going for McCarthy, who sits 54th on B/R’s big board, would be considered a significant reach that early for the Commanders. Perhaps the coaching staff and front office wants to cover all of their basis in case Washington trades down to a point where Maye, Daniels and USC’s Caleb Williams would all be gone.

The Giants make more sense as a landing spot for McCarthy with the top 10 as currently constructed. He could plausibly be the best QB available by the time they’re on the clock with the sixth pick.

Connor Hughes of SNY reported last Friday that McCarthy is perceived as “the player the Giants want.” Perhaps the team’s meeting with the national championship winner helped to tip the scales in his favor for now.

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Then there was Eluemunor. The glee oozing from this new Giants offensive lineman was so immediate and heartfelt that his exuberance nearly burst off the screen with his many joyous social media posts.

Seventeen years after looking on in wonder as the Giants in the rain at Wembley defeated the winless Dolphins, 13-10, Eluemunor is now a 29-year-old NFL veteran of seven seasons, having played for the Ravens, Patriots and Raiders.

The Giants in the first week of free agency signed him to a two-year contract worth $14 million, with $6.75 million in guaranteed money, and it might have been a kingdom’s worth of gold, considering how merrily Eluemunor welcomed this new chapter.

As the NFL for the first time decided to take its action out of the country, the inaugural International Series regular-season game was played in London, at historic (for a different kind of football) Wembley Stadium.

The idea was to grow the brand, and the Giants and Dolphins were chosen to showcase this foreign product to a new audience.

Who could have possibly known back on Oct. 28, 2007, that an impressionable 13-year-old Londoner would see that game, his first glimpse of the NFL, and be mesmerized not only by the sport itself but by the team in blue and white.

“That helmet and that uniform just sticks out to me,’’ Jermaine Eluemunor said recently. “It’s known across the world. For me coming here to this franchise was always a dream.’’

There were so many players last week agreeing to terms and signing new contracts, moving from one city to another, excited to be getting paid by a new team that was happy to have them aboard.