The Facts: According to ESPN.com's Jordan Raanan, it's been obvious when watching the Giants practice that Shepard’s role will change -- and has changed. He has been playing as an outside receiver with significantly more regularity in new coach Pat Shurmur’s offense. “I’ve been doing a lot on the outside,” Shepard said after organized team activity No. 4 on Tuesday, when he was lined up alongside Hunter Sharp and/or Cody Latimer most of the afternoon with the first-team offense.

Diehards Line:This isn’t completely new to Shepard. He worked on the outside some at Oklahoma and at times in his first two professional seasons. Shepard has taken 330 snaps on the outside with the Giants. It has never been a problem. Former coach Ben McAdoo was also big into cross-training all his receivers to make sure they knew the responsibilities of playing any position in his offense. Shurmur has a similar approach. But Shepard has primarily been used as a slot receiver in the NFL. He took 83 percent of his snaps out of the slot as a rookie in 2016. That dipped to 75 percent last season. Still, all 10 of his career touchdowns have come as a slot receiver, per Pro Football Focus. Fifty-one of his 59 receptions and both his touchdowns last season came out of the slot. Only Jarvis Landry, Larry Fitzgerald and Doug Baldwin have more receiving yards out of the slot since Shepard entered the league in 2016. This has further pigeonholed Shepard as a slot receiver, a label that has followed him dating to his time at Oklahoma. Still, it sounds like more opportunities on the outside are coming.