It was a Chamber of Commerce morning at Giants training camp Friday, but the mild temperature did not prevent some overheated feelings from arising.

Kenny Golladay caught a pass over the middle and then got cracked by TJ Brunson, a second-year linebacker. Hard. Probably too hard for the time and place and drill and situation.

Golladay did not appreciate the extra contact and made that known to Brunson. Center Nick Gates, who never met a scuffle he did not seek to join, filled the role as peacekeeper, in his own aggressive way.

“That’s football,” Golladay said afterward. “You know, there’s a lot of competition going on out there, a lot of guys out there just competing. So like I said, it’s football, it’s going to happen.”

Golladay is big enough to handle himself in a crowd, which is why the Giants targeted him this offseason and gave him a four-year contract worth $72 million, with $40 million in guaranteed money. Golladay, 27, did plenty of nice things in his four years with the Lions, but for this cash outlay, the Giants expect even more from him.

The first three days of his first camp with the Giants have not exactly been a showcase for Golladay. He has gotten his receptions, but there has not been much over the top. When he has been matched against James Bradberry, Golladay has not exactly been overwhelming in escaping the clutches of the Giants’ best cornerback.

“We’re gonna compete,” Bradberry said, smiling when his tight coverage of Golladay was mentioned.

Reminded that Golladay was brought in to create highlight moments for the offense, Bradberry said: “That’s not my job. My job is to stop him.”

It will be the job of every cornerback on the Giants’ schedule to try to slow down Golladay. He has 183 career receptions and averages an eye-catching 16.8 yards per catch, but played in just five games in 2020 while dealing with a hip flexor strain. He is far from one of those boastful, self-involved wide receivers and, brought to the podium on Day 3 of camp, he was not interested in delving too much into, well, anything.

Why does he stay around after practice to work with Daniel Jones?

“Really just reps … trying to get on the same page,” Golladay said.

Dealing with the transition coming to a new team?

“It’s football,” he said. “I’ve been doing this for a while. Work is work.”

Is the work different with the Giants, as opposed to the Lions?

“I would say work is work,” he said. “It’s different because I’m on a new team, so the atmosphere is different.”

How is the atmosphere different?

“I’m in New York,” he said. “I was in Detroit.”

As long as Golladay makes noise with his play on the field, no one will care how frugal he is with his words.

“One thing I’ve been very encouraged with Kenny is, first off, the guy is tremendous to work with in meetings,” coach Joe Judge said. “I mean, this guy is keyed in, focused, locked in, like he’s staring through you the whole time. He’s absorbing everything. He’s very, very ahead on how he pays attention in meetings and he carries it over to the field. Mentally, he’s really caught up really fast on what we’re asking him to do.”

What Golladay does better than most is catch the ball in traffic. Since 2018, he is second in the NFL with a contested catch rate of 63 percent.

“Effort and want to,” he said. “I’ll put it like that.”

In 2019 — his most recent full season — his 16 catches on targets of 20 or more yards were the second most in the league. This fits snugly with what Jones does best. In 2020, Jones had the NFL’s highest passer rating on throws of 20 or more yards down the field.

Golladay is 6-foot-4 and looks every bit of it. He towers over some of the players tasked this summer with covering him, including teammate Adoree’ Jackson, who is listed at 5-foot-11.

“I’m not going to lie, I didn’t know how tall he was,” Jackson said. “He’s a statue, pretty tall.”

Judge said Golladay has already straightened out the learning curve. Now it would be nice to see him break free a few times in practice against Bradberry, who joked he might let Golladay get open once in a while.

Golladay perked up with that one.

“I might let him break up a few passes,” he said, “periodically.”