The New York Giants (1-3) head down to The Big Easy to take on the New Orleans Saints (0-4) this Sunday afternoon in an attempt to win back-to-back games for the first time in nearly two years.
The last time the Giants had consecutive victories was from November 19 to December 11, 2023, behind the hot hand of quarterback Tommy DeVito, who led them to three straight wins.
Here are six things to know before Sunday’s Week 5 kickoff.
The series
This will be the 34th regular-season meeting between the two teams, going back to when the Saints entered the NFL as an expansion team in 1967. The Giants are leading the all-time series, 17-16. New Orleans has won three of the most recent four meetings.
The teams last met in Week 14 of last season at MetLife Stadium with the Saints prevailing, 14-11. Big Blue’s most recent victory over the Saints was on October 3, 2021, when they defeated the Saints, 27-21, on the road.
The teams have never met in the postseason. The Saints are one of three NFC teams the Giants have not played in the postseason. The Arizona Cardinals and Seattle Seahawks are the others.
Latest on the Giants
The Giants defeated the previously undefeated Los Angeles Chargers at home last Sunday, 21-18, for their first victory of 2025 and only their second over their last 16 games dating back to last season.
It was rookie first-round pick Jaxson Dart’s debut as the Giants’ starting quarterback, and he led Big Blue to victory with both a passing and a rushing touchdown.
The win did not come without a cost, however. Star wide receiver Malik Nabers tore his ACL in the game and will miss the remainder of the season.
Latest on the Saints
The Saints have opened the 2025 regular season with four straight defeats, the most recent coming last week to the Bills in Buffalo, 30-19. They are the only winless NFC team after four weeks and one of three in the NFL at the moment. The New York Jets and Tennessee Titans are the others.
New Orleans has allowed 30.3 points per game, third-highest in the league this season behind only Baltimore (33.3) and Dallas (30.0).
Taysom Hill returning to practice for Saints
The Saints have struggled on offense this year without their jack-of-all-trades quarterback/tight end/running back Taysom Hill, who has been on the physically unable to perform (PUP) list as he recovers from surgery to repair a torn ACL. He is returning to practice this week, but it is unclear whether he’ll play in this week’s game.
Hill is a top red zone threat for the Saints, an area in which they have been lacking. With Hill in the lineup last season, the Saints converted 61.5 percent of their red zone possessions into touchdowns. Without him, the Saints only found the endzone 52.9 percent of the time, a near 10 percent drop.
How much will the Giants miss Nabers?
The Giants entered the 2025 season with just six wide receivers on their roster, and returner Gunner Olszewski was one of them. They are now down to five: Wan’Dale Robinson, Darius Slayton, Jalin Hyatt, rookie Beaux Collins, and Olszewski.
Nabers led the group with 35 targets, followed by Robinson (27) and Slayton (12). The others have not been targeted in the passing game yet this season. That is naturally going to change. Hyatt seems to be the logical choice to get Nabers’ reps, but he appears to have fallen back out of favor with the coaches after talk of him having a breakout year.
Their options are few at this point. The first is to add from the practice squad. Lil’Jordan Humphrey, Ihmir Smith-Marsette, or rookie Dalen Cambre are three players the Giants stashed there after final cuts last month, but none can bring anything close to what Nabers brings to the offense.
They can also make a trade, but this early in the season, the candidates are few. The bottom line is there is no replacing Nabers, who was on the cusp of becoming one of the league’s elite wideouts.
New faces of note
The Saints have a new head coach this season, 37-year-old Kellen Moore, who the Giants know very well. Moore was the offensive coordinator for the Dallas Cowboys from 2019 to 2022 before taking the same job with the Los Angeles Chargers in 2023. Moore moved on to Philadelphia last year as the offensive coordinator and led the Eagles and running back Saquon Barkley to a Super Bowl championship.
Rookie left tackle Kelvin Banks Jr., whom the Saints selected ninth overall out of Texas in the 2025 NFL draft, has played 100 percent of the offensive snaps so far this season.
This article originally appeared on Giants Wire: New York Giants vs. Saints: 6 things to know about Week 5 matchup
