CHICAGO — Little, if anything, has gone the way the Giants and Darius Slayton envisioned it would go after the team and the player surprised most everyone last March with the news that he was staying around with a three-year contract for $36 million.

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Slayton is struggling through a rough seventh year with the team that selected him in the fifth round of the 2019 draft, making him the longest-tenured player on offense. In the season opener, Slayton played 66 snaps at Washington and did not catch a pass.

It has not gotten appreciably better. He had a costly fumble in the loss in New Orleans and dropped what should have been a touc

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