Dexter Lawrence, Darius Slayton ready for Giants revival they stuck around for
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It makes it simple because it is such a nice, round number.

They are the Giants’ longest-serving players, a group now down to two since Daniel Jones departed before completing his sixth year with the team.

The 2019 draft saw the selection of Jones and Dexter Lawrence in the first round, with Darius Slayton joining in the fifth. Since then, much has transpired, and unfortunately, most of it has been disappointing.

Losing has abounded for Lawence and Slayton. Since their arrival, the Giants have taken the field exactly 100 times in six seasons.

When asked after Thursday’s training camp practice to guess the number of times the Giants have won out of those 100 games, Slayton quickly calculated and answered, “Maybe 20 and whatever.’’

He was told the correct answer is 32. The Giants are 32-67-1 since he and Lawrence came aboard.

“It means we haven’t been very good,’’ Slayton told The Post. “It’s just a number that’s in the past. Hopefully the next six years, if I’m blessed enough to be a Giant for six more, we flip that around in the other direction.’’

No one else on the roster has seen all that Lawrence and Slayton have seen.

They are not old — Slayton is 28, Lawrence 27 — but at times they seemed weary because all the failure has been so tough to take. Yet they remain optimistic.

After all those trudges off the field saddled with yet another loss, Slayton now believes he will appreciate a franchise turnaround more than any other player.

“Selfishly, I think so,’’ Slayton said. “I think it will probably mean a little bit more to me, just in the time I’ve been here and what I know, the people I know around here — specifically the people that work here, upstairs, with the Giants, what it would mean to them. I think it will mean a lot, for sure.’’

Both could have gone elsewhere but opted to stay with the team that brought them into the league.

Four years into his career, it was obvious that the Giants needed to make a preemptive strike to secure Lawrence for the long haul, as he was ascending to preeminence as an interior defensive lineman.

In May 2023, he signed a four-year, $90 million extension to keep him under contract through the 2027 season.

It sure looked as if Slayton’s sixth season with the Giants would be his last, as the team went 3-14 and it felt like both sides were ready for a split.

Yet Slayton signed a three-year deal for $36 million, and he insists he would not have done so if he viewed the Giants as a dead-end destination.

It is not easy to stick around when a team is in a downward spiral and frequently changing head coaches (three of them in the past six years).

“For Dex, he was just kind of born that way, ‘’ Slayton said of Lawrence’s staying power with the Giants. “Bigger, stronger, faster. I was born faster, not quite bigger and stronger. ‘’

Lawrence is encouraged by hearing more players speaking up on defense, a sign of expanded leadership and a greater acceptance of roles.

“If you’re special teams, you’re special teams,’’ Lawrence said. “You’re a superstar, you’re a superstar; you’re a backup, you’re a backup; and flourishing in those roles because you never know where it can go. I think we’re all part of a body, and the body is this team and this organization, and everybody has to do their specific role every day so we can get what we want to get.’’

Slayton called his Giants’ tenure “a good six years’’ and quickly added, “It’s been a long six years.’’ He and Lawrence have each played in 92 regular-season games.

“My whole career’s been invested here, most of my adult life has been invested in New Jersey and the N.Y. area,’’ Slayton said. “It will be huge to be able to win here in my time as a Giant.’’

Slayton made sure to say “when’’ about a Giants revival, which sounds utterly convincing, but it must be noted that Slayton has expressed such confidence before and the result was more failure.

“ ‘If’ is a wish, and I think we’re kind of past the point of wishing,’’ Slayton said. “We’re at the point of doing. When you have the plan to do and the ability to do, it’s when, it’s not a matter of if or can or will. You have to believe it, and then you have to actually go out there and do it and force it.’’

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