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Getty Images Seventeen years ago, a very real first-round trade happened between the Chargers and Giants, with quarterbacks Eli Manning and Philip Rivers swapping cities after being selected. On Monday morning, a fake tweet from the Chargers’ Twitter account showed the Chargers packaging a...

Getty Images Plenty of players from days gone by could be introduced to a modern audience, for reasons other than nostalgia. With the NFL revolutionizing the numbering system for players, there’s an unintended consequence that could play out for several teams. With a wide swath of players now...

Getty Images One of the difficulties for NFL teams as they prepare for this year’s draft has been evaluating players who opted out of playing in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. During a press conference on Thursday, Giants General Manager Dave Gettleman said that he’s never had to deal with...

Getty Images Dave Gettleman has been a General Manager for eight drafts across two teams, the Panthers and Giants. In that time, he’s famously — or notoriously — never traded back. When that got brought up during his Thursday pre-draft press conference, Gettleman noted it’s not because he’s...

Getty Images The Giants’ moves this offseason have pointed to a win-now approach in the wake of four straight losing seasons and it looks like that will extend to the draft as well. General Manager Dave Gettleman said on Thursday that the “Cliff Note answer is yes” to a question about whether...

Getty Images The 49ers have signed running back Wayne Gallman, Field Yates of ESPN reports. Gallman, 26, visited the team earlier this week. He led the Giants in rushing last season, becoming the lead back after Saquon Barkley tore an anterior cruciate ligament. Gallman, a 2017 fourth-round...

Getty Images The Giants have made the playoffs once since winning Super Bowl XLVI and they’ve gone 18-46 over the last four seasons, so it was little surprise to hear co-owner John Mara say recently that he’s getting impatient for the team to put up better results. That impatience played out...

Getty Images Giants General Manager Dave Gettleman met the media on Tuesday and much of the discussion focused on the team’s moves in free agency. The Giants re-signed Leonard Williams and then brought in wide receiver Kenny Golladay, cornerback Adoree' Jackson, tight end Kyle Rudolph and...

Getty Images The Eagles could join the Dolphins in continuing to hopscotch in and around the top 10 of the draft. With news that the Dolphins, who have moved from No. 3 to No. 12 and then back to No. 6, could be potentially trading down again, the Eagles, who started at No. 6 then went to No...

Getty Images With a little more than a week to go before the start of the draft, reports about teams looking to move up or down the draft board are starting to accumulate. The Giants are one of the subjects of those reports. Ian Rapoport of NFL Media reports that the team is “internally...

Getty Images Giants General Manager Dave Gettleman used the second overall pick in the 2018 NFL draft on Saquon Barkley, the highest a running back has been drafted in the last 15 years. But Gettleman didn’t want to stop devoting resources to running backs with Barkley. So this offseason...

Getty Images Tight end Kyle Rudolph agreed to a contract with the Giants early in free agency, but there was a bump in the road to making that deal official. A foot injury flagged in Rudolph’s physical created a brief snag and led to questions about how the Giants would proceed, but the...

Getty Images The 49ers are meeting with a potential addition to their offensive backfield. Field Yates of ESPN reports that running back Wayne Gallman is visiting with the team. Gallman led the Giants in rushing last season after taking over as the lead back in the wake of Saquon Barkley‘s...

Getty Images Running back Sandro Platzgummer will be back with the Giants this year. Platzgummer spent the 2020 season with the team as part of the NFL’s International Player Pathway Program and the Giants announced that he has re-signed with the team on Tuesday. Platzgummer began playing...

Getty Images The McCourty twins may be splitting up. Devin McCourty remains under contract to the Patriots, but Jason McCourty is a free agent and he’s drawing interest from another team. Ian Rapoport of NFL Media reports that McCourty is visiting with the Giants. It’s the first visit of the...

Getty Images Giants players released a statement through the NFLPA announcing they will not take part in voluntary in-person workouts at the team facility. Players from seven other teams have made similar announcements, declaring some or all of their players will not take participate in...

Getty Images Michael Pierce elected to opt out of the 2020 season due to the COVID-19 pandemic. But now he’s back for what will be his first year with the Vikings. Pierce was a solid force on the interior of the Ravens’ defensive line for the first four years of his career. And he’ll have...

Getty Images Back in January, it was reported that Eli Manning had met with Giants co-owner John Mara about a potential ambassador role within the organization. Those plans have apparently gone forward. But at this point, Manning’s exact duties are not set in stone. “We’re figuring that out,”...

Getty Images The Giants parted ways with a defensive back on Wednesday. Cornerback Ryan Lewis has been waived after spending one year with the team. Lewis signed to the Giants practice squad last September and moved to the active roster later that month. He appeared in five games and made...

Getty Images Former NFL receiver Travis Rudolph faces charges of first-degree murder and attempted first-degree murder. A witness to the incident contends that Rudolph may have had justification. Hannah Winston of the Palm Beach Post reports that Rudolph acted in self-defense after a group of...