The Giants are adding some depth for their defensive line.
Per Via Mike Garafolo of NFL Media, New York is signing Sam Roberts to a one-year deal.
Roberts, 27, appeared in five games for Atlanta in 2025, recording 18 total tackles, one tackle for loss, and his first career sack.
A Patriots sixth-round pick in 2022, Roberts has appeared in 20 games with two starts for New England, Carolina, and Atlanta.
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The value of NFL teams keeps going up and up.
It’s now a given that franchises have an 11-figure value. As evidenced by the latest valuation of a team at nearly $11 billion.
Per Mike Ozanian of CNBC, via Sports Business Journal, the proposed transfer of the equity held by Steve Tisch, Jonathan Tisch, and Laurie Tisch to their children values the franchise at $10.8 billion.
The proposed transfer involves 23.1 percent of the team. Under that valuation, the specific number applied to the Tisch shares being shifted to their children is $2.5 billion.
Stephen Ross recently sold one percent of the Dolphins to Lin Bin, at a record valuation of $12.5 billion.
It’s still unclear whether the proposed transaction is a result of, or coincidental to, Steve Tisch’s involvement with Jeffrey Epstein. While Tisch would surrender his equity interest in the Giants, he’d reportedly continue to serve as chairman of the franchise’s board of directors.
Giants running back Cam Skattebo is eating not crayons but his words.
Skattebo has posted an apology on social media for his recent remarks regarding Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy and asthma. He dubbed CTE an “excuse,” and he called asthma “fake.”
“I recently did an interview and had a lapse in judgment,” Skattebo said, “which resulted in making a tasteless joke about CTE and asthma. It was never my intention to downplay the seriousness of head trauma or asthma. I sincerely apologize to anyone that was offended by my remarks, and I assure you that I’ll be more mindful and respectful going forward.”
While Skattebo now calls his comments a “joke,” they didn’t come off that way. Regardless, he’s now predictably cleaning up the mess he made with his remarks.
Odell Beckham Jr. last played in an NFL game on December 8, 2024. He’s still hoping to return.
In advance of Saturday’s inaugural Fanatics Flag Football Classic, Beckham said he hopes the event will be the springboard for another NFL opportunity.
“Looking forward to hopefully getting an opportunity to play this year, and hopefully, this is kinda just a starting point,” Beckham told Kay Adams in an interview, via USA Today.
Beckham added that he’d welcome the possibility to return to the Giants.
During the opening game against the U.S. men’s national team, Beckham made an impressive one-handed catch of the smaller-than-regulation ball in the end zone for a two-point conversion.
A first-round pick of the Giants in 2014, Beckham has played for the Browns, Rams, Ravens, and Dolphins. He has five 1,000-yard seasons, and he was a two-time Pro Bowler.
No team has shown serious interest in Beckham since the Dolphins released him late in the 2024 season.
Maybe Cam Skattebo should stick to eating crayons.
Appearing recently on the Bring the Juice with Frank Dalena podcast, the Giants running back had some things to say about Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy.
Asked whether CTE is real, Skattebo said (via Manny Soloway of Awful Announcing), “No. It’s an excuse.”
Dalena then suggested, inexplicably, that asthma is an excuse, too. (If it was a joke, it proves yet again that comedy is hard.) In response, Skattebo dubbed asthma “fake,” later saying that people who have it should just “breathe air.”
Maybe the whole thing is a bit, and I’m too old to get it. Regardless, if they were trying to be funny or whatever, it doesn’t come off that way. And it hardly represents a pivot away from Skattebo’s overall vibe — which includes, for instance, a pregame ritual that looks like someone pointed a golf cart at a wall and put a brick on the pedal.
It will be interesting to see if the Giants have anything to say about the things Skattebo said. When an Emeka Egbuka Twitter account that had “duped” the Buccaneers’ social-media team recently asked, “Is CTE even real?,” the Buccaneers moved quickly to explain that the account has no connection whatever to the team or to Egbuka.
If you thought it was odd to see a WWE wrestler on the coverage of Netflix’s NFL games on Christmas, that was just the appetizer.
Netflix will televise on March 25 its first-ever MLB game, the opening-night game between the New York Yankees and the San Francisco Giants. On Friday, Netflix announced that New York Giants quarterback Jameis Winston will be a “special guest” for the event.
Yes, Winston played baseball at Florida State. His initial NFL contract with the Buccaneers prevented him from playing baseball. And he’s a compelling TV presence — funny, entertaining, charismatic.
Still, he doesn’t come from the MLB ecosystem. Baseball aficionados will regard it as unusual to see him on the broadcast.
Netflix doesn’t seem to have an issue with unusual. This year’s Christmas games included clunky in-game interviews with former NFL players. It distracted from the action, and it made the presentation of the game seem amateurish.
There could nevertheless be a strategic benefit to Winston’s presence. “Eating a W” becomes an easy way to add a little something to the ball before a pitch.
It’s been more than four years since Brian Flores filed his landmark race discrimination lawsuit against the NFL and various teams. The case remains stuck at square one.
The six teams that are the subject of claims made by Flores, Steve Wilks, and Ray Horton — the Dolphins, Giants, Broncos, Texans, Cardinals, and Titans — continue to seek a stay of the proceedings, pending multiple different appeals. This week, the presiding judge declined to stay the litigation.
Currently, the Giants, Broncos, and Texans have a petition for appeal pending before the U.S. Supreme Court on the question of whether the claims made against them require mandatory arbitration. A ruling is expected within the next month or so. (The Supreme Court first has to accept the appeal before resolving the issue.)
The Dolphins, Cardinals, and Titans more recently had their efforts to force arbitration denied. That will inevitably be the subject of another petition for appeal to the Supreme Court, based on the broader conclusion that the NFL’s entire system of arbitration controlled by the NFL has been struck down.
Like most defendants to civil litigation, there’s value in slowing the process down as much as possible. Flores, Wilks, and Horton want to move the case along.
While, like all parties in civil cases, appeal rights can be exercised as to certain issues before the case has ended, there’s a point at which justice delayed becomes justice denied. It has been more than four years. At some point, it’s time to start addressing the merits of the case, and to stop spinning the wheels of the court system on the threshold question of where and how the case is going to be litigated.
As to the notion that the case would have moved faster if the plaintiffs had accepted the league’s arbitration procedures (even if the process is inherently rigged against them), consider this — the league’s designated arbitrator (according to the plaintiffs) did nothing with the claims for more than a year.
A defendant to a civil case can run, but it cannot hide. Unfortunately, the NFL and the six teams that have been sued have managed to run an ultramarathon in the effort to avoid having to answer the specific claims that Flores, Wilks, and Horton have made.
Common sense suggests that, if the NFL and the six teams had any real confidence in its arguments on the merits, they would eventually stand and fight instead.
Edge rusher Abdul Carter will have a new uniform number to go with a new head coach for his second season with the Giants.
The Giants announced on Friday that Carter has switched to No. 3. The 2024 first-round pick wore No. 51 as a rookie, but Russell Wilson is no longer with the Giants and that freed up his new number for this season.
Uniform numbers were an issue for Carter leading into last season as well. He wanted to wear No. 56, but the request to unretire those digits was slapped down by Lawrence Taylor. Carter then set his sights on No. 11, but Phill Simms had the same response as his former teammate when asked about giving Carter the chance.
Carter may now be settled for a while and the Giants will be hoping he builds his own legacy in No. 3 after his dalliances with jumping onto those built by previous members of the team.
Offensive lineman Joshua Ezeudu is re-signing with the Giants on a one-year deal, Jordan Ranaan of ESPN reports.
The Giants made Ezeudu a third-round pick in 2022, and he has appeared in 33 games with the team. Ezeudu has made seven starts at left tackle, two at left guard and one as an extra lineman in his career.
He spent all of last season on injured reserve after he injured his calf in training camp.
In 2024, he appeared in a career-high 17 games with three starts.
The Giants re-signed offensive lineman Evan Neal, another member of the 2022 draft class, last week.
On Monday morning, before the Chiefs traded for former Jets quarterback Justin Fields, someone was throwing spaghetti on the question of whether Kansas City was eyeing Russell Wilson as Patrick Mahomes insurance.
With the Chiefs off the board, what’s next for Wilson?
His days as a starting quarterback have ended. The only teams with a current vacancy at the top of the depth chart are the Cardinals and the Steelers. A Pittsburgh reunion is highly unlikely, even if Aaron Rodgers doesn’t return.
The Raiders possibly, maybe would be interested in a short-term bridge, if they aren’t comfortable with putting Fernando Mendoza on the field right away. Wilson may not be inclined to once again be the three-game starter before getting the tap.
Then again, Wilson may not have many choices. Which raises the question of whether he’s willing to take whatever he can get, making him one of the very rare former franchise quarterbacks who’ll accept being No. 2 or No. 3 on a depth chart.
Joe Flacco, who was twice the highest-paid quarterback in the NFL, is and has been willing to do that. Most of the guys who were once at or among the top of the market won’t accept anything other than a gift-wrapped starting job.
It can’t be easy for a guy who has spent so much time as “the guy” to accept becoming “just another guy.” But it happens to any pro football player who stays beyond the shelf life of his high-end skills.
In preparation for his current shot at free agency, Wilson parted ways with his longtime agent, Mark Rodgers, and hired David Mulugheta of Athletes First. During Wilson’s best years, it helped him to have an agent who had one and only one NFL client; the negotiations on Wilson’s contracts were never compromised by the agent’s broader business interests as to other players he represented.
Now, Wilson needs the help of someone who may have the league-wide goodwill to get Wilson a roster spot in exchange for keeping the agent happy as to the looming negotiations with a higher-profile client.
The mere fact that Wilson made the change represents an acknowledgement, conscious or not, that things have changed for him. He still has a high degree of confidence in his skills. Which isn’t surprising. For all NFL players, confidence that borders on delusion is a must.
At some point, however, the basis for the confidence evaporates. By the end of last season, Wilson had slipped behind Jameis Winston on the Giants’ depth chart.
Wilson’s third foray into free agency continues. Two years ago, he took the minimum from the Steelers because the Broncos owed him $39 million. This time around, the minimum salary of $1.3 million may be Wilson’s only option.
And the overriding question will be whether, after earning more than $315 million in his career, he’s willing to commit seven or more months for the smallest payday since signing his slotted four-year, $2.996 million deal as a third-round pick, 14 years ago.
