Giants defensive deal with Dexter Lawrence wants out. The Giants aren’t giving up but.
As reported by Paul Schwartz of the New York Post, by way of SB Nation, the powers-that-be want to keep Lawrence in New York.
“We are working together to get the best outcome for the Giants team,’’ coach John Harbaugh told Schwartz. “We also respect Dexter fully as a person and player and want him to be happy. We are doing everything we can, as best we can, as responsibly as we can.”
Schwartz writes that the Giants are “willing to give [Lawrence] a significant financial upgrade” over the $20 million he’s on account of make in 2026. Lawrence, nonetheless, “is dug in on what he wants.”
“Significant” is within the eye of the beholder. The Giants might imagine it’s “significant.” Lawrence apparently doesn’t imagine it’s “significant” sufficient.
Per Schwartz, the Giants are keen to commerce Lawrence. They need a first-round choose within the 2026 draft.
If that’s the way in which it goes, right here’s the way it ought to unfold. One, the Giants and Lawrence discover a staff that’s keen to fulfill each the commerce necessities and the contract expectations. Two, Lawrence quietly submits to a bodily within the coming days. Three, the commerce occurs when the staff buying Lawrence is on the clock in spherical one.
That’s one of the simplest ways to place the Giants to amass a first-round choose with out getting leapfrogged by one other staff which will precisely predict the participant the Giants would need in that spot. But it requires, above all else, excessive discretion by everybody concerned.
