New York Giants

Every NFL player the encyclopedia attributes to the New York Giants from profile season records, grouped by position, first season to last. Coverage follows the encyclopedia’s per-era source depth (complete 1999+, legend-era via validated Wikipedia/NFL.com grids).

Every position room New York Giants has passed down, steadiest first. The RB room is their most stable — 8 holders across 88 years, a new one every 7.4 on average.

1. RB8 holders · 7 handoffs · 1936–2023 · one every 7.4y
   Alphonse Leemans1936–1943→Frank Gifford1952–1964→Joe Morris1982–1988→Dave Meggett1989–1994→Rodney Hampton1990–1997→Tiki Barber1997–2006→Brandon Jacobs2005–2013→Saquon Barkley2018–2023
2. QB7 holders · 6 handoffs · 1961–2024 · one every 7.1y
   Y. A. Tittle1961–1964→Fran Tarkenton1967–1971→Phil Simms1979–1993→Jeff Hostetler1985–1992
3. TE5 holders · 4 handoffs · 1976–2021 · one every 7y
   Gary Shirk1976–1982→Mark Bavaro1985–1990→Howard Cross1989–2001→Jeremy Shockey2002–2007→
4. DB11 holders · 10 handoffs · 1950–2019 · one every 4.2y
   Emlen Tunnell1950–1958→Beasley Reece1979–1983→Mark Collins
5. DL12 holders · 11 handoffs · 1977–2025 · one every 4.1y
   George Martin1977–1988→Leonard Marshall1983–1992
6. LB12 holders · 11 handoffs · 1956–2026 · one every 4y
   Sam Huff1956–1963→Brad Van Pelt1974–1983→

+1 more room with a shorter average hold.

Room tenures, not starting jobs — the corpus has no per-season depth chart, so holders can overlap (a successor often arrives before his predecessor leaves) and the measure is how often the room changed hands. A holder is a player who produced real value for this club during his years here, which is what separates holding the room from being on the roster. Detected from per-season VAL (1936–2026 here; league coverage is complete from 1999) — rooms the corpus cannot value are not shown.