Jalin Hyatt met with members of the New York Giants media contingent on Monday, where he was subjected to repeated questions about how the Tennessee offense he spent his college career in helped prepare him for the NFL. Was he asked to do less from a route standpoint at Tennessee than he’s being asked to do now with the Giants? Has the transition been harder?

Questions about the star receiver’s route tree were persistent during the NFL Draft process, but New York was unconcerned and eventually traded up to select Hyatt in the third round of last month’s NFL Draft.

When Hyatt faced those same questions on Monday, former NFL receiver and 4-time All-Pro selection Chad Johnson came to his defense.

“These questions are insulting and outright dumb,” Johnson wrote on Twitter. “He’s a receiver with the ability to run every route if you (expletive) actually watched him play. Can someone get me the names of these so-called reporters who obviously didn’t do their got damn [sic] homework please?”

Hyatt, to his credit, handled the question-and-answer session with poise.

He said he plans to do whatever the Giants ask of him and said any criticism doesn’t bother him.

“The draft process is in the past, and I’m here with the New York Giants, and I’m just ready to get to work,” he said.

Criticism that Josh Heupel’s system at Tennessee hid Hyatt’s weaknesses was best highlighted by a pre-draft exchange between Hyatt and Dallas Cowboys receiver coach Robert Prince, when Prince seemed to doubt that Hyatt was anything more than his speed.

And the Giants don’t seem to have those same concerns. They drafted him, after all. And coach Brian Daboll said during the team’s rookie mini-camp, “I’m good with Jalin.”