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Getty Images The Giants were optimistic they could work out a deal to keep offensive tackle Nate Solder while lowering his salary cap number this season, and it appears that optimism was justified. Solder and the Giants have agreed in principle to a new contract, Ian Rapoport of NFL Network...

Getty Images Are the Giants contenders this year, or are they a rebuilding team with plenty of work to do? That may depend on whether you ask the G.M. or the head coach. General Manager Dave Gettleman, who is 70 years old and heading into his fourth year on the job, sounds less patient than...

Getty Images The Giants will retain one of their restricted free agents, re-signing wide receiver C.J. Board to a one-year deal, per ESPN’s Jordan Raanan. Board has bounced between several teams since entering the league as an undrafted free agent out of Chattanooga, but received his first...

Getty Images It appeared Nate Solder was headed toward his release from the Giants. But Dan Duggan of TheAthletic.com reports that the Giants now have optimism they can keep the offensive tackle with a reworked deal. The sides are talking. Solder, who turns 33 next month, opted out of 2020 in...

Getty Images The NFL has set the salary cap at $182.5 million for the 2021 season on Wednesday and they’ve also set the amount that teams will have to pay if they exercise their fifth-year option on 2018 first-round picks. The Collective Bargaining Agreement that the NFL and NFLPA agreed to...

Getty Images The Giants are getting younger and cheaper on the offensive line. Guard Kevin Zeitler, a 31-year-old whose departure saves the Giants $12 million, has been released. With that move, the Giants are now under the projected 2021 salary cap of $182.5 million. Zeitler started all 16...

Getty Images The NFL announced its 2021 compensatory draft picks, which now include special compensatory picks rewarding teams for developing minority coaches and executives. The selections this year are from the third to sixth rounds. With the CBA limiting the number of compensatory...

Getty Images The Giants have been trying to put together a strong offensive line since before Dave Gettleman became their General Manager late in the 2017 season and it very much remains a work in progress. Last year’s first-round pick Andrew Thomas had a rocky rookie year at left tackle while...

Getty Images Last year Giants offensive tackle Nate Solder opted out of the season, in part because his son was battling cancer. Now Solder’s son is better and he is interested in returning to the field. But that’s not a sure thing. Solder wrote for TheIncrease.com that although he’s still...

Getty Images The deadline for NFL teams to use the franchise tag has passed, and 10 players got tagged this year. One player, Dak Prescott, got the exclusive franchise tag, although Prescott and the Cowboys have already agreed to a long-term contract extension. Nine players got the...

Getty Images The Giants could save $6 million by trading or releasing Evan Engram, but coach Joe Judge sounds as if the tight end isn’t going anywhere. Engram, 26, made his first Pro Bowl in 2020 after making 63 catches for 654 yards and a touchdown. He also had 11 drops and six interceptions...

Getty Images Neither Giants General Manager Dave Gettleman nor head coach Joe Judge confirmed the team is using the franchise tag on defensive lineman Leonard Williams for the second straight year when they met with the media ahead of Tuesday afternoon’s deadline to do so, but multiple reports...

USA TODAY Sports With Matthew Stafford, Jared Goff, and Carson Wentz already on the move and much speculation about Deshaun Watson, Russell Wilson, and others possibly moving, there are a lot of teams pondering quarterback changes this offseason. The Giants insist that they are not one of...

USA TODAY Sports Reports of changes to the Giants coaching staff have trickled in during the last couple of months and the team formalized those moves on Tuesday. They confirmed that they have hired Rob Sale as their new offensive line coach and that former offensive line coach Pat Flaherty...

Getty Images Giants General Manager Dave Gettleman indicated today that it’s not a sure thing he’ll pick up the fifth-year option on running back Saquon Barkley‘s contract. Despite Giants owner John Mara saying in January that he wants Barkley to be a Giant for a long time, Gettleman said...

Getty Images $One way or another, the Giants will be keeping Leonard Williams in the fold for 2021. New York is expected to franchise tag Williams, NFL Media’s Ian Rapoport reports. But the tag is viewed as a placeholder for a long-term deal, which Giants and Williams’ representation will...

Getty Images The Giants have added to their front office, hiring Kyle O’Brien as senior personnel executive. This is a new role in New York’s front office. O’Brien spent the last five seasons with the Lions, the last four as vice president of player personnel. He was also the Jaguars’ director...

Getty Images Tight end Levine Toilolo signed a two-year deal with the Giants last year and he’s reworked it in order to stick with the team for the 2021 season. Ian Rapoport of NFL Media reports that Toilolo has agreed to a restructured contract with the team. The details of the restructure...

Getty Images The Giants reworked tight end Levine Toilolo‘s deal to clear some cap space on Monday and they freed up some more by saying farewell to one of Toilolo’s teammates. The team announced the release of wide receiver Cody Core on Monday afternoon. The move provides the team with $2...

Getty Images Linebacker David Mayo will join wide receiver Golden Tate in saying farewell to the Giants. According to multiple reports, the Giants are releasing Mayo as they move to create cap space ahead of the start of the new league year. Dropping Mayo will clear $2.3 million in cap space...