Jalin Hyatt finally getting another chance after sitting in Giants doldrums

Jalin Hyatt sat on a stool in front of his locker holding an iPad and pinching his fingers together to zoom in on film of his route-running.The receiver, who set college football ablaze in 2022 and showed promise as a rookie last season, has another chance Sunday to emerge from the mysterious shadows in which he has spent this season for the Giants.With Darius Slayton not making the trip to Germany to face the Panthers due a concussion, Hyatt is expected to start.“I feel good about the game plan,” Hyatt told The Post after finding a groove with Daniel Jones during Thursday’s practice.“I haven’t had a lot of opportunities, but I haven’t made the most of my opportunities when they came this year.

Right now, it’s just about taking advantage — staying focused, getting open, trusting D.J.and catching the ball.”Hyatt has one catch for 6 yards over eight games.

By now, the speedy deep-ball threat, who was a starter when training camp opened, was expected to have at least one catch for 10 times that yardage as part of a deeper résumé.Instead, Hyatt has played as many as 64 snaps in a game when Malik Nabers was sidelined and as few as seven total over the past three games, including zero against the Steelers on Oct.28.“What you don’t want to do is get worse,” Hyatt said.

“How you get worse is not caring, not doing a full effort when things aren’t going your way.When I was a sophomore at Tennessee, I had given up when I didn’t play.

I changed that going into my junior year, so I’ve gone through adversity before and I’m using the tools to get better when you don’t have a lot of opportunities.”Hyatt was so good as a junior — 67 catches for 1,267 with 15 touchdowns — that he won the Biletnikoff Award for best receiver in the nation, and he had the Giants willing to trade a fourth-round pick to move up in the third to draft him.Two years later, the Giants aren’t even calling an end-around or a bubble screen to see if Hyatt’s exp...

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