Whether the Giants want to keep Rueben Randle isn’t publicly known, but the veteran wide receiver definitely wants to stay.

Randle told The Post on Thursday that he “loves” playing for Big Blue and is hopeful about being retained before becoming an unrestricted free agent in March.

Asked after practice in preparation for Sunday’s finale at home against the Eagles if he would like to be back with the Giants in 2016, Randle said: “Of course.”

Randle — who is second on the team with seven touchdown receptions this season but has had an up-and-down career with the Giants the past four seasons — said the locker room is the biggest pull for him.

“I love playing on this team and love playing with the guys on this team,” Randle told The Post. “I’ve built a special bond with a lot of people in this organization, so it would be tough leaving them. I would love to stick around, but we’ll see how it goes.”

Randle, who has 53 catches for 718 yards heading into what could be his final game as a Giant, isn’t sure whether he will approach the team about staying or wait for the front office to come to him.

Complicating the process is that the fates of coach Tom Coughlin and general manager Jerry Reese are thought to be up in the air.

“I’m going to leave it up to my people and the [Giants] organization,” Randle said. “My job is to play football, and after that, I’m going to let [my agents] do the job I pay them to do.”

The Giants will end the season with 21 players on injured reserve after putting linebacker J.T. Thomas and long-snapper Danny Aiken on that list Thursday.

That’s the second-highest total in the league behind the Ravens (22). It’s also almost as many as the 22 players the Giants had on IR last season despite Coughlin overhauling his team’s entire non-game regimen this year in hopes of stemming the franchise’s recent injury tide.

Coughlin said Thursday he’s now convinced luck is as much of a factor with injuries as

preparation.

“We’ve changed pretty much everything in the whole program designed to become more scientific and to have more information and more knowledge and to do a better job of adjusting our practices, [but] … we probably have as many injuries as we’ve ever had,” Coughlin said.

“It is football and that’s where it goes. Do you sometimes need to have [luck] going for you? Sure you do. Teams have to deal with this. It is no excuse, but it happens.”

Coughlin said he followed up on his vow to sit down with Odell Beckham Jr. and talk about the receiver’s recent on-field meltdown and one-game suspension.

“That’s between he and I, but you can imagine [how it went],” Coughlin said of the meeting. “You know exactly how he feels, and the fact that he’s taken full responsibility. That’s what he expressed to me, even to the extent that we began to talk a little bit more about the future.​”