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New York Giants headlines for Tuesday
Good morning, New York Giants fans!
Everything is going to Giants’ GM Joe Schoen’s plan. New York might not want to take QB Shedeur Sanders if he falls to No. 3, and despite Penn State EDGE Abdul Carter being very good, the question of where you play him does pop into the mind. The Giants could use this news of Carr potentially being out for the season to leverage their way into trading out of the third overall pick with a team that’s either desperate for a QB or a team that really wants that EDGE rusher (cough cough, Carolina). It feels like the draft really starts at New York, and the Giants could end up moving back in the top ten.
Concerns about adding Abdul Carter to the pass-rush duo of Brian Burns and Kayvon Thibodeaux are overblown to me, but it’d make sense for New York to dangle Thibodeaux in a trade back into the first round. Leaving Round 1 with Carter and a quarterback would be ideal, and it would avoid giving up major draft capital.
His trade value might only be that of a Day 2 pick, but the right team will like the idea of moving back from the middle of the first round to No. 34 while picking up Thibodeaux as an immediate starter.
Schoen — who is on the hot seat — also must determine by May 1 if he wants to pick up Thibodeaux’s fully guaranteed fifth-year option for 2025. That option is worth about $14.8 million. The option deadline comes exactly one week after Round 1 of this year’s draft.
Could Schoen trade Thibodeaux, before (or even after) the option deadline, if he picks Carter? It’s possible. It’s also possible Schoen retains Thibodeaux — with or without that 2026 option exercised — and has him play along with Carter and Brian Burns, who impressed in his debut Giants season last year....
