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Andru Phillips

New York Giants
Pos CB
Updated August 24, 2026

Model Score

70.6 MODEL
2024
72.7
2025
70.6

How good he is at what he is supposed to be doing, out of 100. Not a projection of what he will do next, and not a read on his contract. Median is about 70, and a 95 is rare. How it is built →

Season Stats · 17 games

221st
INT
1217th
Pass Deflections
70.4%107th
Comp % Allowed
7.154th
Yds / Target
359th
TD Allowed
4724th
Solo Tackles

Draft & College

Round 3, pick 70 · New York Giants · 2024
Kentucky (SEC)
Taken
#70
where he actually went
Consensus board
76th
average of the public big boards that spring
Our college model
#1576
among CB in our college data

He went about where consensus had him.

In college · 2022-2023 · 24 games
8 pass breakups, 78 tackles, 3 TFL

Covers the college seasons in our data, which does not always reach back to a player's first year.

Comps

Overall match
size, testing and production, same career stage
College career
his college career vs theirs

STM Take

Tier 5 (#39) rookie 2024 to tier 8 (#59) sophomore 2025 is a 20-spot regression that flags the rookie finish as situational rather than structural. The Kentucky SEC 3rd-round origin plus the Giants' structural anchor role give him basic college foundation. The 2026 question is whether Phillips returns to tier 5-6 territory or whether the structural tier 8 finish becomes the realistic baseline.

Phillips came out of Kentucky as the New York Giants' 3rd-round pick (70th overall) in 2024. He delivered a tier 5 (#39) STTM rookie finish in 2024 before regressing to tier 8 (#59) in 2025.

Strengths

  • Rookie tier 5 (#39) STTM finish as a 70th overall 3rd-round pick confirms a structural top-40 CB ceiling at rookie peak.
  • Kentucky SEC pedigree plus two years of Giants system experience gives him real developmental foundation.

Concerns

  • 20-spot regression from tier 5 (#39) rookie to tier 8 (#59) sophomore flags the rookie finish as situational.
  • Giants' broader defensive identity instability plus the multi-year offensive rebuild compresses the structural support around Phillips.

What to watch: Whether Phillips returns to tier 5 (top 40) in 2026, the threshold for confirming the rookie ceiling can be recaptured.

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