Chubb: I’d embrace being compared to LT

INDIANAPOLIS — The last time the Giants owned the second overall pick in an NFL draft, they used it in 1981 on a defensive player, linebacker Lawrence Taylor, and that worked out fairly well, as LT won two Super Bowls and was elected into the Hall of Fame.

Thirty-seven years later, the Giants are unlikely to use the No. 2 pick on a defensive player, with quarterbacks to choose from, plus running back Saquon Barkley and guard Quenton Nelson to sort through. If they do go defense, though, it would likely be to select Bradley Chubb, the top player at a position — defensive end — the Giants historically enjoy stockpiling.

Any defensive player taken so high would be linked and compared with Taylor.

“I would take it on with a [head] full of steam,’’ Chubb said Saturday at the scouting combine. “Just go out there and compete to be my best. A lot of people are going to have expectations of me no matter how high I go or how low I go. It’s just something where I have to stay humble and keep working on myself.’’

Chubb was a three-year starter at North Carolina State and broke Mario Williams’ school record for sacks and tackles for loss.

Central Florida linebacker Shaquem Griffin is looking to become the first one-handed player to be drafted into the league in the modern era. He won’t know for almost two months whether he will accomplish that goal, but he definitely made teams sit up and take notice with his combine performance.

Wearing a prosthetic attached to his left arm, Griffin did 20 reps on the bench press at 225 pounds, all to the loudest cheers of the day from a raucous crowd excited to witness the feat.

“My goal was six,” Griffin said at his press conference afterward. “I think I beat that by a lot. … Just being able to do that, it was amazing. Hearing the crowd and having the juices flowing, I mean, I felt it.”

For what it’s worth, the biggest, heaviest (237 pounds) of the top quarterback prospects, Josh Allen, ran the fastest 40yard dash, clocking in at 4.75, followed by Baker Mayfield (4.84), Sam Darnold (4.85) and Rosen (4.92). Lamar Jackson, undoubtedly the fastest of the bunch, opted not to run the 40.