Sisi Mauigoas quiet debut was exactly what Giants envisioned

When a starting offensive guard is quiet in his NFL debut, that is a good thing.Sisi Mauigoa’s first game for the Giants amounted to nothing.Nothing, as in he allowed nothing, and in this case less is more.He played all 69 snaps on offense in Sunday night’s 28-20 victory over the Cowboys, and on 36 pass-blocking snaps he gave up zero pressures and zero quarterback hits, according to Next Gen Stats.

Get texts from Paul Schwartz with all the latest Giants news and insights, exclusive to Sports+ subscribers.Mauigoa showed that he is big and sound and exactly what the Giants envisioned when they made him the No.

10 pick in the draft.The entire offensive line was a big plus in this game, paving the way for a rushing average of 4.5 yards on 37 attempts, led by Cam Skattebo’s 81 yards on 18 carries.“I mean, he was running really, really hard, really, really well,’’ head coach John Harbaugh said Monday.

“Set the tempo, brought the energy, juice.I thought his reads were really good.

Then of course the blocking.So, there were a lot of good blocks.

I thought we did a good job with the game plan part of it in terms of getting in the right plays and everything.’’Returning from ACL surgery, Malik Nabers was clearly on a pitch count and he ended up playing 36 snaps — 52 percent of the workload on offense.He was targeted a team-high nine times and his production (6 rec., 69 yards) in limited time was impressive.The rotation at wide receiver was indicative of what was seen in training camp: Rookie Malachi Fields led the wideouts with 50 snaps (72 percent) and caught two passes for 25 yards.

Otherwise, there was not a whole lot from Darnell Mooney in his 39 snaps, although he did come away with two receptions (for 27 yards) on his only two targets.It was a quiet return for Odell Beckham Jr., with no targets in his 11 snaps.

The same for Braxton Berrios on his 12 snaps.Harbaugh said his “tackle’’ of Nabers in the pregame walk-through was not the fir...