Giants TE Darren Waller still hasn't 'made a decision yet' on playing in 2024

A month has passed since Darren Waller said he would decide on retirement soon, and the Giants tight end remains up in the air.

Waller, who turns 32 in December, is several years removed now from his consecutive 1,000-yard receiving seasons, with a downtick in performance and an uptick in injuries leading him to contemplate his NFL future.

"I haven't made a decision yet," Waller recently told Forbes. "It's just a matter of respecting the process. There's so much that goes into the process of going from April through February of an NFL season. The commitment that it requires. I'm a guy who's evolving, who's growing, who's played a lot of football and been through a lot."

Waller played last year with New York following a trade from the Raiders, who he spent the previous five seasons with after turning both his life and career around to become a force at the tight end position.

He collected 197 catches for 2,341 yards and 12 touchdowns in 32 games from 2019-2020, but he managed to suit up for just 11 contests in 2021, which resulted in 665 yards and two scores on 55 catches. A new regime under Josh McDaniels took over for Las Vegas in 2022, another injury-affected year that saw Waller amass 388 receiving yards in nine games before he was shipped out during the offseason.

The TE caught just one TD and collected 552 yards, with another five games lost to injury in 2023 for Big Blue.

It's been a grind, one that can only continue if Waller is all in.

"I'm at the point now where I'm like, 'OK, how much am I willing to give to the process,'" Waller said. "If it's not 100%, it's a disservice to the teammates and the organization that I have. I'm still trying to make a decision on that and it's tough to make one or the other out of