Exhibits A, B, and C were the three players they drafted in the second and third rounds on Friday. While the Jets stole the headlines by trading up for a first-round talent and another elite weapon in running back Breece Hall, the Giants added three players whose impact might not be clear until late in the season, if then. They added a fourth receiver, a developmental guard, a nickel corner and a couple of Day 3 picks.

There were hugs and fists bumps and screams of joy coming from the Jets’ headquarters in Florham Park, N.J. Meanwhile, the reaction to the Giants’ picks were shrugs, raised eyebrows and yawns.

And it’s not that they were bad picks. They might be very good, in time. It’s just impossible to tell yet how they’ll fit in when no one has seen the Joe Schoen-Brian Daboll plan in action. They took a 5-foot-8 receiver in Kentucky’s Wan’Dale Robinson in the second round, when many thought he’d probably still be available in the fourth. Then in the third they took North Carolina guard Joshua Ezeudu, who won’t be a starter this season, followed by LSU cornerback Cor’Dale Flott, whose role will be determined by whether veteran cornerback James Bradberry is here or not.

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