{"id":240626,"date":"2026-05-22T15:43:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T15:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/240626\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T15:43:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T15:43:08","slug":"what-did-free-agency-tell-us-about-the-state-of-the-ny-giants-roster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/240626\/","title":{"rendered":"What did free agency tell us about the state of the NY Giants\u2019 roster?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">NFL rosters are far from set at this stage of the offseason, but free agent signings have slowed to a trickle, and things probably won\u2019t pick up again until cutdown days to get rosters from 90 to 53 players begin after the final pre-season games. Thus what you see on the New York Giants\u2019 roster now is probably pretty close to the pool of players from which the 53 for the 2026 season will be constructed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Most of the interest in free agency centers on the acquisition of new players, but the disposition of players who became free agents at the end of the 2025 season is interesting in its own right. It\u2019s something of a Rorschach test for how the team views its own players vs. how other teams view them, and it\u2019s also a pretty good snapshot of how good a team is right now.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Below is a chart comparing the Giants\u2019 2026 free agent situation to that of all of the 2025 season NFL playoff teams based on the <a href=\"https:\/\/overthecap.com\/free-agency#google_vignette\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Over The Cap<\/a> free agency tracker:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">I would like to try to make the case that the patterns in these numbers are a reasonable guide to the state of each team at the moment. For example:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The list of the Giants\u2019 remaining free agents is interesting. Most are marginal players: Chris Board, Victor Dimukeje, Demetrius Flanningan-Fowles, Neville Hewitt, Da\u2019Quan Felton, TJ Moore, and Anthony Johnson Jr. It\u2019s hard to imagine any of them being added to the roster at this point. A step up from them are more recognizable players such as Tomon Fox, Bryce Ford-Wheaton, and Jamie Gillan, not that I expect any of them back either. Then you have veterans Graham Gano, Russell Wilson and Greg Van Roten. Gano\u2019s career is certainly over, Wilson surely will not be back, and at this point it seems Van Roten won\u2019t either, although I ask: If Francis Mauigoa isn\u2019t ready to start at right guard in Week 1, wouldn\u2019t you rather have Van Roten than any of the Giants\u2019 other options?<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">That leaves Bobby Okereke. I\u2019m not surprised the Giants are not bringing him back; after a great first season in Wink Martindale\u2019s defense it was all downhill after that. Still I\u2019m surprised another team hasn\u2019t taken a chance on him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NFL rosters are far from set at this stage of the offseason, but free agent signings have slowed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151882,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,7692,67779,9093,11,10,49,51,50],"class_list":["post-240626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-giants-analysis","tag-new-york-giants-depth-chart","tag-new-york-giants-roster","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240626","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=240626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}