{"id":186047,"date":"2025-09-27T20:22:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T20:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/186047\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T20:22:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T20:22:10","slug":"giants-qb-russell-wilson-expected-to-emerge-as-trade-candidate-following-benching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/186047\/","title":{"rendered":"Giants QB Russell Wilson expected to emerge as trade candidate following benching"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wilson is making $10.5 million from the Giants this year, but $8 million of that came in a signing bonus<\/a>. Thus, a team trading for Wilson would assume just a portion of his $2 million base. That’s cheap enough to happen midway through the season, when wallets are tight against the salary cap.<\/p>\n

The Giants are likely to consider such a move for the right price, a luxury because Jameis Winston<\/a>, a veteran with 87 starts, would then serve as their backup behind Dart. Winston currently is QB3 on the Giants’ depth chart.<\/p>\n

The Bengals are currently the only team to lose their starting QB for an extended period after Joe Burrow<\/a> underwent toe surgery that is expected to sideline him at least three months<\/a>. A total of 59 quarterbacks started games<\/a> in 2024, however.<\/p>\n

More QB injuries are likely to occur, and Wilson would be available if that happens.<\/p>\n

Wilson has been a solid team leader since signing with New York this offseason, quickly emerging as QB1 and having an impressive spring and summer.<\/p>\n

When the regular season began, however, he was among the lowest-performing starters through three weeks, with three interceptions and a passer rating of 78.5 as the Giants began 0-3. Wilson’s throwaway incompletion on fourth-and-goal proved to be an indelible image during New York’s penultimate drive in a 22-9 prime-time loss to the Kansas City Chiefs this past Sunday night<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Now, it’s Dart’s offense beginning on Sunday<\/a> against the 3-0 Los Angeles Chargers. As head coach Brian Daboll said<\/a>, the move was “the right thing for our football team.”<\/p>\n

Soon, the Giants could have another decision to make on Wilson, as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wilson is making $10.5 million from the Giants this year, but $8 million of that came in a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186048,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[977,3,349,6257,36315,15945,99,103733],"class_list":["post-186047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-new-york-giants","tag-news","tag-nfl","tag-no-minute","tag-regular-season","tag-russell-wilson","tag-sports","tag-the-insiders"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}