{"id":573487,"date":"2026-04-09T08:21:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T08:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/573487\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T08:21:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T08:21:09","slug":"giants-not-eyeing-dexter-lawrence-raise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/573487\/","title":{"rendered":"Giants Not Eyeing Dexter Lawrence Raise"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 2023 offseason established a new salary bracket among interior defensive linemen, bridging the sizable gap between Aaron Donald and the field at the time. Dexter Lawrence<\/a> was among the ascending D-tackles who did so, joining Quinnen Williams<\/a>, Jeffery Simmons<\/a> and Daron Payne<\/a> in being given top-five DT deals that offseason.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Lawrence, Payne, Simmons and Williams remain tied to those extensions. As could be expected, some other interior D-linemen have passed this quartet as the salary cap has soared. Milton Williams<\/a>, Jordan Davis<\/a> and Zach Allen<\/a> each passed $25MM per year; Davis and his ex-Eagles teammate are at $26MM AAV. Alim McNeill<\/a> and Nnamdi Madubuike<\/a> surpassed the above-referenced foursome as well.<\/p>\n

By far the best piece of the 2019 Odell Beckham Jr.<\/a>\u00a0trade for either the Giants or Browns, Lawrence proved worthy of the four-year, $90MM extension he signed in May 2023. He ventured to three straight Pro Bowls and booked two second-team All-Pro spots (2022, \u201923). The popular New York nose tackle then tallied nine sacks in just 12 games in 2024. That led to a push for at least a deal revision in 2025, but the Giants only provided incentives<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While Lawrence has requested a trade based largely on<\/a> extension talks not progressing, his timing is not great. The Clemson alum is coming off a regression, totaling just a half-sack and a career-low eight QB hits. Lawrence eclipsed 20 hits in 2022 and \u201923, and even with Leonard Williams<\/a> gone by 2024, Lawrence remained in high gear. Joe Schoen also posited some of Lawrence\u2019s 2025 statistical issues stemmed from the elbow dislocation he sustained in 2024. That comment likely resonated with Lawrence\u2019s camp, but the Giants do not seem eager to appease the disgruntled player.<\/p>\n

The Giants are eyeing neither a trade nor a raise, with the New York Post\u2019s Paul Schwartz indicating<\/a> the team does not look to have a strong desire to reward Lawrence after last season. The team would prefer Lawrence play out his current deal, which has two years remaining. No guaranteed money is left on the contract, and John Harbaugh said he anticipated Lawrence skipping the start of the team\u2019s offseason program.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\u201cThe Giants, speaking for the Giants, we want Dexter here,\u201d Harbaugh said, via Schwartz. \u201cI believe Dexter wants to be here. That\u2019s a good formula. But there\u2019s business involved. It\u2019s a business proposition. We know it\u2019s pro football. These things happen every year pretty much on every team. Not surprised by it. Saw it coming a few weeks back probably.\u201d<\/p>\n

The new Giants HC called Lawrence \u201csuper important\u201d earlier this year<\/a>, as the Giants made it clear he would not be traded to free up any cap space. Rumblings about a trade price matching or exceeding what<\/a> the Cowboys sent the Jets for Quinnen Williams \u2014 a 2027 first-rounder, a 2026 second along with<\/a> DT Mazi Smith<\/a> \u2014 has surfaced, but Schwartz adds the Giants would need to be \u201cblown away\u201d by a proposal to consider moving on.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know that granting a request is really the right way to say it, because it doesn\u2019t really work that way,\u201d Harbaugh said. \u201cIt\u2019s not like a Christmas gift, it just doesn\u2019t work like that.\u201d<\/p>\n

As the DT market shifted in 2023, Harbaugh was part of a key standoff that offseason. He and the Ravens held firm against Lamar Jackson<\/a>\u2018s trade request and worked out an extension for the superstar quarterback. This Lawrence situation represents Harbaugh\u2019s first notable test on the contract front as the Giants\u2019 top decisionmaker.<\/p>\n

How New York proceeds could reveal how much power Schoen still has. The hire of longtime NFL exec Dawn Aponte as VP of football ops undercut the GM\u2019s organizational influence<\/a>. She and Harbaugh running the show may not be great news for Lawrence, a Dave Gettleman draftee whom Schoen extended.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>A hardline stance will not go over well with the decorated D-lineman\u2019s camp, either, as he has fallen to No. 11 in terms of DT AAV ($22.5MM). Lawrence, 28, also played out the guarantees on his contract. That point of a deal regularly spurs action, and Lawrence is proceeding down this path.<\/p>\n

It sounds like the Giants are prepared to wait out the eighth-year standout, who is due a nonguaranteed $18.5MM base salary this season. Lawrence\u2019s next step will be to withhold services at mandatory minicamp. That would bring a small fine. This dragging to training camp would certainly be interesting, as Lawrence would then be put to a hold-in or holdout decision.<\/p>\n

Players almost never sit out regular-season games in contract stalemates, though Chris Jones<\/a> \u2014 the DT position\u2019s current salary kingpin \u2014 did so in 2023. We are a ways away from Lawrence needing to make that call, but as an impact player on a defense that ranked 31st against the run last season, staying away from workouts will certainly command the attention of the new Giants regime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2023 offseason established a new salary bracket among interior defensive linemen, bridging the sizable gap between Aaron…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":573488,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[68034,977,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-573487","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-dexter-lawrence","9":"tag-new-york-giants","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573487","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=573487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/573488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}