Giants defensive tackle Dexter Lawrence requested a trade this week and the prospect of a move came up during Jaguars General Manager James Gladstone’s press conference on Thursday.
After Gladstone answered a question about the team’s interest in the defensive tackles in this year’s draft, he was asked if there was thought to making a run at trading for the veteran. Gladstone’s brief answer did not suggest that the Jaguars are in hot pursuit.
“That’s not something we’ve gone into,” Gladstone said. “Obviously he’s under contract with them, so not at liberty necessarily to even talk about it.”
Lawrence wants an upgraded contract and Giants head coach John Harbaugh said earlier this week that he thinks Lawrence will be a member of the team come the fall, so there may not be much reason for the Jags or anyone else to expend energy on chasing a trade. If the outlook in New Jersey changes, however, there could be a number of suitors for Lawrence’s services.
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John Harbaugh is bringing another former Raven to the Big Apple.
Per Ian Rapoport of NFL Network, the Giants have agreed to a one-year deal with offensive lineman Daniel Faalele.
Faalele, 26, just completed his rookie contract with Baltimore. He started all 17 games in each of the last two seasons for the Ravens.
He was a fourth-round pick in 2022.
Faalele now gives New York another option to start at right guard. The club brought in Lucas Patrick earlier this week as well.
Giants offensive coordinator Matt Nagy thinks he has a good one in quarterback Jaxson Dart.
At the start of the Giants’ offseason program on Tuesday, Nagy said he has been a fan of Dart’s since before getting the Giants job. Last year Nagy was with the Chiefs, who weren’t considering drafting a quarterback in the first round, but he said he still looked at the top quarterbacks in last year’s draft and came away impressed with Dart.
“I was able to watch a decent amount of Jaxson last year, when I was in Kansas City,” Nagy said. “We tried to take as little time as possible watching the quarterback position, but every year I will watch just to see the top guys that are there, and I remember coming away impressed with Jaxson and his accuracy.”
Nagy said it has been refreshing watching Dart in multiple contexts, first at the 2025 Scouting Combine, then when catching Giants games last year, and finally in the last couple months after Nagy was hired in New York.
“I didn’t know how tough he was and how good a runner he was,” Nagy said of Dart. “At the Combine, us not really being in the quarterback market, watching him, just observing how he handled himself in that group of quarterbacks at the Combine, you could see this moxie he had, this it factor. When I got here to New York and started meeting with him, you could tell right away that was true. This kid is different in that way.”
Building an offense around Dart and helping him develop into a franchise quarterback is the most important job for Nagy in New York. If Dart is as good as Nagy says he is, it’s a job that should get done.
Giants defensive tackle Dexter Lawrence requested a trade this week and he isn’t the only member of the team’s defense to have his name come up in trade chatter.
Edge rusher Kayvon Thibodeaux is in the final year of his rookie deal and Giants also have Brian Burns and Abdul Carter, which has led to some thought that the Giants could move Thibodeaux to address other areas of the team. The prospect came up during head coach John Harbaugh’s press conference on the first day of the team’s offseason program and Harbaugh said he looks forward to seeing what Thibodeaux can do for the Giants without taking anything off the table.
“I think he’s a great player,” Harbaugh said, via SNY. “I’m excited about him. I was fired up to see him today. He looks great, in great shape. I’m thinking about him on the field. I’m thinking about getting him plugged into our defense and getting him rolling. You want to talk about is he a trade possibility? Everybody’s tradable. Everybody.”
It’s a similar answer to one General Manager Joe Schoen gave at the Scouting Combine in February, so the Giants likely have a price in mind for moving Thibodeaux to go with their plans for his role on defense if no one should make the right offer ahead of Week 1.
Giants receiver Malik Nabers and running back Cam Skattebo both are expected to be ready for Week 1.
But Skattebo is closer to a return than Nabers, coach John Harbaugh said Tuesday.
Harbaugh said Skattebo could return this spring, while Nabers won’t be back until sometime in training camp and “closer to the season.”
Nabers underwent surgery to repair the torn ACL in his right knee on Oct. 28.
“He’s in the classroom; he’s lifting weights; he’s in the rehab stuff, got up and spoke, like everybody did,” Harbaugh said, via SNY. “It was great, man. He’s in great spirits. It was fun to be around him.”
Nabers made 109 catches for 1,204 yards and seven touchdowns as a rookie and had 18 receptions for 271 yards and two touchdowns in 2025 before his season-ending injury in Week 4.
Skattebo is recovering from an Oct. 26 surgery to repair a dislocated ankle, fractured fibula and ruptured ligament in is right leg.
He totaled 125 touches for 617 yards and seven touchdowns as a rookie.
Giants cornerback Paulson Adebo was one of three players on the roster who didn’t attend the first day of voluntary offseason workouts today — and the only one whose reasons for missing the workout weren’t explained to head coach John Harbaugh.
Adebo, who signed a three–year, $54 million contract last offseason and didn’t play up to expectations, wasn’t there today, and Harbaugh said he didn’t know why.
“It’s his right. It’s his reason. Whatever his reason is, I’ll be interested to hear it. But it is what it is. It’s OK,” Harbaugh said.
Giants defensive tackles Dexter Lawrence and Sam Roberts were the other two players not there, but Harbaugh knew why: Lawrence has requested a trade, while Roberts is recovering from surgery.
“Sam wasn’t here because he has a surgery he can’t travel with yet. He’s got to wait for the stitches to heal,” Harbaugh said.
Harbaugh made clear he understands the rules of voluntary workouts, that players are free not to attend and don’t have to let the team know they’re not going to be there.
“There’s no excused or unexcused. It’s voluntary. Guys come or not come according to their choosing,” Harbaugh said.
Still, most players choose to attend voluntary workouts, and those who don’t usually let their coach know the reason. On the Giants, Adebo is the only player who didn’t show and hasn’t explained why.
Defensive tackle Dexter Lawrence requested a trade this week, but Giants head coach John Harbaugh thinks the team will be able to work out a solution that keeps Lawrence on the roster.
Lawrence is looking for a new contract and his request came after initial talks with the Giants failed to result in an agreement. Lawrence has two years left on his current deal and would like a raise from the Giants or someone else that moves him closer to the top of the pay scale at the position.
The impasse led Lawrence to skip the start of the team’s offseason program on Tuesday, which was a decision head coach John Harbaugh said he saw “coming a few weeks back” and that the team will “try to work through it” with Lawrence’s agent. He also said he’s confident that everything will work out in a way that allows him to coach Lawrence this fall.
“We’ll find out,” Harbaugh said, via SNY. “I think the prospects are going to be high because we want Dexter here, I believe Dexter wants to be here. That’s a good formula, but there’s business involved.”
Lawrence is a key player on the Giants defense and his departure would be a blow to Harbaugh’s chances of immediately turning things around with his new team, but it remains to be seen if the two sides can get on the same page when it comes to finances.
Defensive tackle Dexter Lawrence is not expected to join the Giants for the first day of their offseason program, but wide receiver Ryan Miller should be with the team.
The Giants announced on Tuesday morning that they have re-signed Miller after tendering him as an exclusive rights free agent earlier in the offseason.
Miller joined the Giants last December after being claimed off of waivers, but did not play any snaps before the end of the season. He signed with the Buccaneers after going undrafted in 2023 and played in 25 games ahead of being cut in Tampa.
Miller had 14 catches for 162 yards and three touchdowns during his time with the Bucs.
Few relationships are ever better than they are on the first day. For Giants G.M. Joe Schoen and coach John Harbaugh, the first day is fading into the rearview mirror — and the first opportunity for disagreement has arisen.
It’s been there, lurking. On Monday, defensive tackle Dexter Lawrence officially made it known he has asked to be traded, after trying unsuccessfully to get a new contract.
At the Scouting Combine, there were questions. Schoen and Harbaugh did their best to not fuel the issue.
“I don’t know where this Dex stuff is coming from,” Schoen said multiple times during his Indianapolis press conferece.
At that same time, Harbaugh was effusive in his praise for Lawrence.
“He’s a cornerstone football player, not really a cornerstone,” Harbaugh said. “He’s more like the middle stone. He’s right in the middle. He’s a very big stone and he’s a very active athletic stone. So we want him in there being a big stone.”
The issue becomes a big stone that, if not handled properly, could sink the Schoen-Harbaugh partnership.
The threshold question is whether they’ll tear up the final two years of his current deal and give him a contract that reflects the NFL’s current financial realities, or whether they’ll cross their arms and say, “Honor your contract.” The deeper question is whether Schoen and Harbaugh will be on the same page as to the Sexy Dexy strategy and the implementation of it.
In past years, it would have been Scheon’s call alone. Now, with Harbaugh leveraging a direct line of reporting to ownership, the coach and G.M. are on equal footing. If anything, Harbaugh has more juice.
To date, Harbaugh has praised Schoen. The mere fact that Harbaugh’s opinion of Schoen even matters shows how dramatically the Giants’ power structure has changed. Previously, the coach of the Giants worked for the G.M. Now, it already feels like the G.M. is working for the coach.
And the Lawrence conundrum gives Harbaugh an opportunity to evaluate Schoen’s skills and abilities when it comes to finding a solution and negotiating a contract that allows the Giants to have enough cash and cap space to build a contending team.
However it plays out, Harbaugh will eventually come to a conclusion as to whether he’s comfortable with Schoen as the team’s G.M. In Denver, George Paton did enough to win the trust of Sean Payton. Schoen will have to do the same thing, one transaction at a time.
The outcome of the Lawrence situation will become a significant data point for Harbaugh. It’s a basic reality of the power and influence Harbaugh has with the team. If/when the Giants start winning more games than they lose, Harbaugh will acquire even more say.
And Harbaugh’s ultimate opinion about Schoen will be influenced, one way or another, regarding the manner in which Schoen handles the Lawrence contract.
The Giants will kick off their first offseason program with John Harbaugh at the helm on Tuesday, but four players won’t be joining the rest of the roster at the team’s facility.
The team announced that they have waived wide receiver Da’Quan Felton and three defensive backs. Patrick McMorris, T.J. Moore and Myles Purchase make up that group.
Felton and Morris both signed with the team after going undrafted in 2025, but spent the season on injured reserve.
McMorris was a 2024 Dolphins sixth-round pick who appeared in six games during his rookie season. He and Purchase were both on the Giants’ practice squad at times last season.
