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Tuesday, April 30, 2019

The OL

Back in March, when the Giants picked up plus RG Kevin Zeitler as part of the Beckham trade, it loooked like they were darn serious about fixing the line for the 2019 season. Here at the end of April, it's not so clear. Over draft weekend they went against all expectations and did not spend a premium pick on a much needed Offensive Tackle - instead they traded the #37 pick (which fell during a run on OT's) to get a corner.  And, as it turned out, they would draft 2 more corners to go with a third round pick from the 2019 draft they spent in last year's supplemental draft to get Sam Beal.  In the 7th they finally picked T George Asfaro-Adjei, who has some tools but needs some time.

Clearly they were more interested in cluster drafting CB's than finding a long term RT.

So why was that?  Apparently it's because they are bringing in Mike Remmers as soon as next Tuesday.  See, the sort of second or third tier of UFA's are free to sign without effecting the compensation formula on the second Tuesday after the draft. So the Giants probably do have Remmers in their pocket, and will look for a developmental or young tackle in the trademarket, the 2019 Supplemental draft, the cap casualty markets or around cutdown time .

Remmers buys them more time, but they have to get it done.

Meanwhile, it would be a great thing if C Evan Brown is ready to roll this year.  Brown was a priority UDFA last April who made the team but never played, nor was he exposed to waivers to get him to the P-Squad at any time. Gettleman was with the Giants when they singned UDFA Rich Seubert, and ran the Panthers when they made Norwell a priority UDFA.  So let's home Evan Brown is the Center version of those guys,

And speaking if UDFA's, the Rookie Mini-Camp starts Thursday, and has it's first practice Friday.  It's hard to tell at this point, which players are signed and which are just trying out, but there are some interesting OL's on the way, and the Giants might find a gem there.

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