Teams cannot get enough of them, and almost always prioritize them. They get paid big bucks in free agency, and go quickly in the NFL Draft, year after year. If a team has one, it wants two. If it has two, it looks for three and four.

The Giants, however, did not select even one pass rusher during the three-day draft last week. Not one edge rusher.

With their seven selections, they took two cornerbacks, one center, one wide receiver, one running back, one safety and one defensive tackle.

The Giants addressed their three biggest needs, taking cornerback Deonte Banks in the first round, center John Michael Schmitz in the second round and receiver Jalin Hyatt in the third round.

If those three players as rookies are not significant pieces, the plan has gone awry.

A team cannot hit every position group in one draft as if they were items on a buffet line. Still, given the importance of the pressure game, adding someone to get after the opposing quarterback would have been nice.

In 2022, the Giants ranked 13th in the league in team sacks with 41, far above the league-low 20 sacks by the Bears and far off the NFL-high 70 sacks amassed by the Eagles. Not bad, not great. Slightly better than the middle of the pack.

Defensive coordinator Wink Martindale’s aggressive scheme accounted for much of the applied pressure, and interior lineman Dexter Lawrence led the team in sacks with 7.5.

The two starting edge rushers, Azeez Ojulari (5.5 sacks) and Kayvon Thibodeaux (four sacks), did not exactly light the field on fire with their pursuit of quarterbacks. That Ojulari achieved his production in just seven games is both impressive and troubling — impressive because of the per-game numbers, troubling because he found it difficult to stay on the field.

While health is the question for Ojulari, experience is for Thibodeaux, who figures to grow after his solid rookie year and come up with more pass-rush expertise.

In addition to Ojulari and Thibodeaux, the Giants are bringing back outside linebackers/edge rushers Elerson Smith (no sacks in five games) and Tomon Fox (one sack in 16 games, working mostly on special teams).

So, yes, adding another young prospect to get after the QB would have been helpful for the Giants, but it did not come to pass in the draft.

“Yeah, and that’s something, again, we can continue to look for that,’’ general manager Joe Schoen said. “We have Elerson — showed promise but had an injury last year. Fox is a guy we like. So those guys have all played snaps, and we’re excited about them. And we may add a couple [as undrafted free agents] or again, we continue to look at our emergency list.

“We are all weighing those two things, [based on] what’s available post-draft based on how teams drafted over the weekend. There may be a surplus of players that become available next week. We’ll continue to look at all positions and measure where we are if we like our group or not. And again, we don’t play until September in terms of the regular season, so if we’re devoid of something somewhere, we’ll continue to look.’’

Schoen knows he has to keep up with the top team closest to home, in the NFC East and in the conference. Matching the Eagles up front is a monumental task, even more so after this draft. The Eagles did what they usually do, stocking up on both lines and building their ability to get after the opposing quarterback and protect their own quarterback. That was clear in their first three picks: defensive tackle Jalen Carter, edge rusher Nolan Smith and offensive tackle Tyler Steen.

“It just represents how we feel,’’ Eagles general manager Howie Roseman said. “We want to build a team with an O-line and D-line, and it was important for us to make a statement in this draft, in this offseason, that this is how we believe we’re going to win.

“I think every opportunity we had in this draft where the grades were the same … we weren’t going off the draft board, and we saw a lineman, we wanted to pick that lineman. I think it worked out.’’

The Giants spread it out more than that in this draft, not having the luxury of concentrating on fortifying their offensive and defensive lines at the expense of other spots on the field.

Maybe Banks develops into a shut-down corner and that affords the pass rushers a second or two more time to work their moves.

That may have to be the plan for now given the Giants’ choice to not add to their edge rusher skill level or depth chart in this draft.

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Up until this year, the Giants did things the old-fashioned way in their draft room, including using magnets to designate players on their board. Very old-school.

Last year, the Giants’ first pick was No. 5 overall. This year, it was No. 25 (until they traded up to No. 24). Coach Brian Daboll joked that having to wait so much longer in the first round was detrimental because he “didn’t want to carry the magnets around,’’ which was why he “begged the owners for a new draft room.’’

And that’s what he got.

The Giants’ room was completely redesigned this year, and now features full digital integration. No more magnets.

One addition the Giants found immediately helpful — and more fun — was the ability for the entire room to be shown on FaceTime when connecting with a player to tell him he’d just been selected by the team.

“It’s a really neat feature and we could use that pre-draft,’’ Schoen said, “because you could Zoom with a prospect, so if there was ever a scenario where Dabs, myself, Wink, [defensive backs coach] Jerome [Henderson] wanted to get in there, ‘Hey, let’s Zoom with this prospect and talk ball,’ and we could all be in there and have those type of meetings. And it’s a universal room that we can use for free agency, draft, medical meetings.”

When Schoen arrived in 2022, he immediately dove into free agency and then the draft with his new team and a scouting staff largely left over from the previous regime.

Afterward, he made a few alterations within the Giants’ scouting department and pro personnel staff.

A year later, after a second free agency and draft cycle, Schoen continued to tinker with the football operations, which will see the departures of D.J. Boisture, the West Coast area scout, and pro scout Steven Price.

Boisture, the son of longtime Giants personnel executive Tom Boisture, had been with the Giants since 2013. Price was with the Giants the past three years.

Scouts usually are signed to two-year contracts, so these moves may be cases of their contracts not being renewed.

Here are two questions that have come up recently that we will attempt to answer as accurately as possible:

Before the draft, the Giants brought QB Hendon Hooker from Tennessee in for one of their 30 allowed visits. Why did they do that, considering they were not in the market for a quarterback?

Here is the deal with that one: Hooker was having a great season for the Vols (27 touchdown passes, two interceptions) and playing his way toward first-round status before he tore his ACL in a Nov. 20 loss to South Carolina.

The Giants wanted to get Hooker into their building to check out the knee and get to know him better. They figured he might be worth their pick late in the third round — No. 89 overall — as a stash-away. Hooker probably will need the entire 2023 season to recover from the knee surgery.

This was not about replacing Daniel Jones. Veteran backup Tyrod Taylor is entering the final year of his contract. Hooker is already 25 years old, so it made sense for the Giants to explore this as an option.

Hooker, though, was taken by the Lions at No. 68 overall. The Giants did not sit at No. 89. They traded up to No. 73 to select Hyatt — Hooker’s teammate at Tennessee.

Was it really worth giving up two draft picks (one in the fourth round and one in the seventh) to trade up one spot in the first round?

For the Giants, it was. They had a few wide receivers and cornerbacks on their board in the 20-25 range, and all of them were getting scooped up as the Giants’ No. 25 pick approached.

At that point, Schoen had three options: Stay at 25 and hope cornerback Deonte Banks was there; move up to make sure he got Banks; or trade down and target a player in the next tier.

Schoen figured there were other teams willing to trade up with the Jaguars at No. 24 to take Banks, and he did not want to be beaten to the punch. He believed Banks was the last remaining cornerback worthy of a first-round pick and felt it was worth giving up two additional picks to get him.

Schoen also really did not see the need to take 10 players in this draft, so consolidating three picks into one was not debilitating to the plan.