{"id":202471,"date":"2026-04-19T11:20:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T11:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/202471\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T11:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T11:20:07","slug":"new-york-giants-draw-mixed-reactions-for-trade-of-dexter-lawrence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/202471\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Giants draw mixed reactions for trade of Dexter Lawrence"},"content":{"rendered":"

With less than a week until the 2026 NFL draft, the New York Giants<\/a> made a blockbuster trade on Saturday, sending three-time Pro Bowler Dexter Lawrence<\/a> to the Cincinnati Bengals<\/a> in exchange for the 10th overall pick in the draft.<\/p>\n

Lawrence had requested a trade from the Giants less than two weeks earlier amid a contract dispute. Although he had two years remaining on the contract he signed after his breakout 2022 season, Lawrence sought a new deal.<\/p>\n

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Selected 17th overall in 2019 in a pick acquired via the Odell Beckham Jr.<\/a> trade, Lawrence has spent his entire career with the Giants to this point.<\/p>\n

The trade comes despite new head coach John Harbaugh having described Lawrence earlier in the offseason as a cornerstone piece to build around, with many considering him untouchable.<\/p>\n

Following the announcement that the Giants were shipping off arguably their best player in exchange for the 10th overall pick in Thursday night\u2019s draft, fans and analysts reacted with a mix of shock, excitement, and disappointment.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Giants Wire: New York Giants draw mixed reactions for trade of Dexter Lawrence<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With less than a week until the 2026 NFL draft, the New York Giants made a blockbuster trade…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202472,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[48671,4507,2672,4508,21020,4084,3917,34142,34377,4509,10663,33593,12340,9,2683,11,10,34030,49760,7657,62310,3918,7653,63667,34108],"class_list":{"0":"post-202471","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-ben-rice","9":"tag-brian-burns","10":"tag-cincinnati-bengals","11":"tag-dexter-lawrence","12":"tag-evan-neal","13":"tag-giants","14":"tag-jaxson-dart","15":"tag-jaylen-waddle","16":"tag-john-harbaugh","17":"tag-kayvon-thibodeaux","18":"tag-knicks","19":"tag-mahomes","20":"tag-micah-parsons","21":"tag-new-york","22":"tag-new-york-giants","23":"tag-new-york-headlines","24":"tag-new-york-news","25":"tag-odell-beckham-jr","26":"tag-packers","27":"tag-sauce-gardner","28":"tag-sonny-styles","29":"tag-the-giants","30":"tag-travis-hunter","31":"tag-trent-mcduffie","32":"tag-trey-hendrickson"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}