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    Joe Burrow and Baker Mayfield headline Thursday night in Week Two

    Getty Images First overall pick Joe Burrow will be making his first Thursday night appearance in Week Two of the regular season if all goes according to plan. The Bengals are set to be in Cleveland as the Thursday Night Football slate gets underway. Baker Mayfield got his first NFL win on a...
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    Will the schedule carry clues of possibly shared stadiums?

    Getty Images When the schedule is released on Thursday night, the specific configuration of 256 regular-season games will be scoured for clues regarding contingency plans that the league surely has formulated, given the pandemic. Some will be obvious. Some may not be. A sense has been...
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    Giants claim quarterback Cooper Rush off waivers from Cowboys

    Getty Images New Giants offensive coordinator Jason Garrett will have someone around to help teach his ways. (Including, we assume, the clapping). According to Tom Pelissero of NFL Network, the Giants have claimed quarterback Cooper Rush off waivers from the Cowboys. Rush was with Garrett in...
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    Giants cut Reggie White after claiming Cooper Rush

    Getty Images The Giants needed a roster spot after claiming quarterback Cooper Rush off waivers from the Cowboys. They made it by cutting Reggie White. The other Reggie White. The receiver Reggie White, no relation to the late Hall of Fame defensive lineman, originally signed with the Giants...
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    Seventeen players will have fifth-year options exercised

    Getty Images Teams have until 11:59:59 p.m. ET to decide on fifth-year options for the first-round picks from 2017. Some teams already publicly have committed. Based on media reports, others have made their decisions, too. Running back Christian McCaffrey, the eighth overall choice in 2017, is...
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    Giants defer next season ticket payments to July 1

    Getty Images The Giants sent a letter to season ticket holders Monday deferring their next payments to July 1, Art Stapleton of northjersey.com reports. Team co-owners John Mara and Steve Tisch said they were pushing back the due date given the “current landscape” and economic fallout from the...
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    Eli Manning: It will be easier for Daniel Jones to lead without me in the room

    Getty Images Earlier this offseason, former Giants quarterback Eli Manning said he thinks that this offseason “has the potential to be” a difficult one for Daniel Jones. Jones took over for Manning early in his rookie season and Manning said he feels the 2019 first-round pick’s progress could...
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    Joe Judge has started talking about Daniel Jones

    Getty Images In Joe Judge’s first meetings with the media after being hired as the Giants head coach, he talked a lot about his vision for the future but never mentioned any players on the team by name. He said it was because “no one’s got a spot” on the depth chart, which was a bit curious...
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    “Mr. Irrelevant” will get his party, eventually

    Getty Images Tae Crowder will get his party, he’s just going to have to wait for it. The former Georgia linebacker, who was chosen with the 255th and final pick in the 2020 NFL Draft — becoming Mr. Irrelevant — will eventually be celebrated with the annual festivities in Newport Beach, Calif...
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    Giants add four more undrafted rookies

    Getty Images The Giants came closer to filling out their roster. The team announced the addition of four more undrafted rookies, to go along with the previously reported first 10 they agreed to deals with after the draft. The new guys are defensive back Jaquarius Landrews, running back Javon...
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    Giants pick up fifth-year options on Evan Engram, Jabrill Peppers

    Getty Images The New York Giants are picking up the fifth-year options on tight end Evan Engram and safety Jabrill Peppers. Fifth-year options are guaranteed for injury only and have to be exercised prior to the former first-round pick’s fourth season in the NFL. Engram was the Giants’...
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    Joe Judge “excited about the prospect” of talking to Markus Golden

    Getty Images The Giants broke out the rarely used unrestricted free agent tender this week in order to increase their chances of holding onto edge rusher Markus Golden. If Golden hasn’t signed with another team by July 22, he’ll be tied to the Giants with a salary of just over $4.1 million...
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    Giants cut Colin Holba and five others, announce 10 UDFAs

    Getty Images The Giants announced several roster moves Tuesday, leaving their roster at 85 players. Teams are allowed 90 players during the offseason. They announced the claim of safety Monte Hartage off waivers from the Dolphins, which previously was reported. Hartage’s defensive coordinator...
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    Giants to give fifth-rounder Shane Lemieux a look at center

    Getty Images In the hockey world, the last name Lemieux and center go hand in hand but Giants fifth-round pick Shane Lemieux played a different position in college. Lemieux started 52 consecutive games at left guard while at Oregon, but he may be following in Mario’s footsteps as the first...
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    Former NFL coach, player, G.M. Harland Svare dies at 89

    Getty Images Former Giants linebacker Harland Svare died April 4 at a nursing home in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, the New York Times reports. Svare was 89. The Rams selected Svare in the 17th round of the 1953 draft out of Washington State. He played two seasons for the Rams before joining...
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    Eagles, Giants add players through International Player Pathway Program

    Getty Images Each year, the NFL places four players with teams through the International Player Pathway Program and the NFC East is home to those teams this season. As previously noted, the Cowboys were awarded offensive lineman Isaac Alarcón García and defensive lineman David Bada was placed...
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    Giants use UFA tender on Markus Golden

    Getty Images The Giants are employing a little-used provision in the NFL’s free agency rules to give themselves a better chance of keeping defensive end Markus Golden — or getting a compensatory pick for him if he goes elsewhere. The Giants placed the unrestricted free agent tender on Golden...
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    Fifth-year option tracker

    Getty Images NFL teams have until May 4 at 11:59:59 p.m. ET to exercise fifth-year options on 2017 first-round draft choices. The window to sign those players to contract extensions opened Dec. 30, with Panthers running back Christian McCaffrey becoming the first to get a new deal. Some of...
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    Joe Judge told Giants picks: Make no predictions, don’t talk about Super Bowls

    Getty Images Giants coach Joe Judge wants his rookies to under-promise and over-deliver. Judge made clear to the Giants’ top picks offensive tackle Andrew Thomas and safety Xavier McKinney, that he agrees with his old boss, Bill Belichick, and McKinney’s old coach, Nick Saban, about not...
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    John Mara: “We better be a better team this year”

    Getty Images At a time when Giants G.M. Dave Gettleman is believed to be on the hot seat, co-owner John Mara has done little to refute that reality. “We should be a better team this year,” Mara told Steve Serby of the New York Post on Sunday night. “We better be a better team this year.”...
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