These numbers can’t be right.

Except they are.

Until the middle of the fourth quarter, when it already was clear the Giants were headed for a 26-7 loss to the Arizona Cardinals, Evan Engram had zero catches for zero yards on one target. Sterling Shepard had one catch for four yards. Golden Tate had two targets. Deep threat Darius Slayton’s long reception was 13 yards — on the first play of the game.

Where were all the playmakers?

“I know there were some opportunities,” quarterback Daniel Jones said. “Guys were getting separation and winning [matchups], and I have to do a better job of finding them and getting the ball to them in those situations. Arizona deserves a lot of credit: They played well.”

The truth is Cardinals cornerbacks Patrick Peterson — a future Hall of Famer — and Dre Kirkpatrick and safeties Chris Banjo and All-Pro Budda Baker blanketed the Giants throughout the secondary.

With Jones unable to run on a strained right hamstring, the Cardinals played physical and took away easy throws, forcing the hobbled quarterback to hold the ball as his offensive line caved in to allow eight sacks.

Slayton (1.4) and Shepard (1.9) both averaged less than two yards of separation, which was bottom-10 among NFL targets who played Thursday or in the early slate of Sunday games, according to NextGenStats.

One of the few deep shots the Giants took was at an inexplicable moment.

Trailing 23-7 and backed up at their own 16-yard line for third-and-1, Jones threw a deep fade in 1-on-1 coverage to Shepard when the situation called for the ground-and-pound Giants to hand off to Wayne Gallman and keep the drive alive. An incompletion led to a punt.

“There was a matchup we thought we liked right there,” Giants coach Joe Judge said. “There are things we talk about going in, in terms of game plan and things we had to do to make plays down the field. Look, we’ve hit some of those throughout the season, as well. They’ve been big plays for us. To sit here and second guess everything we did, we knew what the plan was.”

Shepard has been a big-play catch-and-run receiver for the Giants throughout his career, but he is averaging a career-low 9.1 yards per catch in an offense that has him settling into holes underneath and running outs to the sideline. The third-down play was called in by offensive coordinator Jason Garrett and not an audible, despite Jones’ barking before the snap.

“I didn’t change the play,” Jones said. “We went through a couple of cadences and got the play in. Saw a [good] matchup there, and I need to give him a better chance to make that play.”

The offense lacked balance, too.

Gallman’s streak of five straight games with a touchdown ended last week, when he ran for a career-high 135 yards. He managed just 12 carries for 57 yards against the Cardinals, who were averaging 123 yards per game allowed on the ground.

“They definitely did some things that we didn’t expect, but we did what we could,” Gallman said. “There are things that we could have done better in terms of our identity as our own unit.”