The Giants cut veteran kicker Jason Sanders on Tuesday. They needed the roster spot to get wide receiver JuJu Smith-Schuster on the roster.
Sanders’ departure leaves Ben Sauls and rookie Dominic Zvada as the kickers on the roster. Sauls was 8-for-8 on field goals for the Giants in 2025.
Sanders, who missed last season with a hip injury, signed with the Giants on March 10. He will leave a $100,000 dead cap hit for the Giants, with the other $200,000 of the guaranteed money containing offset language.
The Dolphins made Sanders a seventh-round pick in 2018, and in seven seasons in Miami, he made 84.6 percent of his field goals and 96.6 percent of his extra points. Sanders is 33-of-48 from beyond 50 yards with a career-long of 57 yards.
He made first-team All-Pro in 2020.
The Giants added a trio of veteran receivers on Monday, at a very minimal investment.
Via Jordan Raanan of ESPN, Odell Beckham Jr., JuJu Smith-Schuster, and Braxton Berrios each signed one-year contracts for the veteran minimum of $1.3 million.
It makes the situation an extended tryout. It costs the Giants only the 90-man roster spot and the per diem for the offseason program and training camp (if they last that long).
The contracts also show that the Giants don’t expect any of them to be starters or key contributors. They necessarily accepted that by taking the financial terms that were offered.
The overriding question is this — can any of them land high enough on the depth chart to avoid the expectation to play special teams? That raises the stakes for both Beckham and Smith-Schuster; older receivers usually aren’t gunners on the punt team.
For now, the stakes are low for the Giants. They can see what the new receivers will do, in relation to the players on the roster.
And (perhaps as importantly) the Giants can turn the page on the recent non-football dustup that created obvious issues for the locker room and consternation within the fan base.
The Giants made official their signings of wide receivers Odell Beckham and Braxton Berrios, announcing both moves.
In corresponding moves, the Giants placed wide receiver Gunner Olszewski on injured reserve and released long snapper Zach Triner.
Olszewski’s torn Achilles on Friday necessitated the workout of three wide receivers on Monday, and the Giants signed two of them. JuJu Smith-Schuster also worked out for the team, and he also is expected to sign.
The Giants also announced that offensive lineman Jarrod Gray was granted an exemption as an international player.
Triner’s departure leaves Ben Mann as the only long snapper on the roster as the Giants replace Casey Kreiter, who left this offseason.
Triner appeared in only one game last season, long snapping for the Commanders in Week 13 against the Broncos. He played eight snaps.
He was the Bucs’ long snapper for most of the previous six years.
Triner, 35, played 81 games for the Bucs and has played 85 in his career. He was with the Dolphins for three games in 2024.
The Giants found what they were looking for three times over during a wide receiver tryout on Monday.
NFL Media reports that they are signing former Steelers and Chiefs wideout JuJu Smith-Schuster after the workout. The news comes after word that they are also signing Odell Beckham Jr. and Braxton Berrios.
The moves come as the Giants wait for Malik Nabers to return from last season’s torn ACL. Head coach John Harbaugh said last week that it is “impossible to predict” when Nabers will be fully cleared to return to action.
Smith-Schuster had 33 catches for 345 yards and a touchdowns while appearing in all 17 games for Kansas City last season. Matt Nagy was the Chiefs’ offensive coordinator in those contests and he now has the same job on Harbaugh’s staff with the Giants.
Odell Beckham Jr. is coming back to where his NFL career started.
Shortly after multiple reports on Monday said that Beckham will sign with the Giants as a free agent, the Giants announced the agreement. Beckham worked out for the team the second time this offseason earlier in the day.
Beckham was a 2014 first-round pick and was named the offensive rookie of the year after catching 91 passes during his first NFL season. He had 197 catches over the next two seasons, but missed most of 2017 after fracturing his ankle and dropped to 77 catches after signing a contract extension ahead of the 2018 season. He was traded to the Browns the next year and went on to play for the Rams, Ravens, and Dolphins before sitting out all of last season.
Beckham played for first-year Giants head coach John Harbaugh while with Baltimore in 2023, so it will be a dual reunion for the wideout now that he’s back with the NFC East club.
The Giants are also signing wide receiver Braxton Berrios after a Monday workout.
