The two-win Giants currently are tied for the worst record in the NFL and slated by Tankathon.com to receive the first overall selection in the 2026 draft. If that holds through the final four weeks of the regular season — given their remaining strength of schedule, it is unlikely but not impossible — this will be the first time in 61 years the team finds itself at the top of the picking order.

“That’s not an honor,” Tucker Frederickson, the running back from Auburn the Giants selected back then, said in a phone interview with Newsday from his home in South Florida this week. “To get the No. 1 pick, it means you had a horrible season.”

That certainly was true of the 1964 Giants, who went 2-10-2. And it’s just as true now.

But the Giants getting those rare first dibs for only the second

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