{"id":610555,"date":"2026-04-28T04:08:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T04:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/610555\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T04:08:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T04:08:07","slug":"report-two-nfc-teams-tried-to-trade-up-to-no-9-in-front-of-the-giants-at-no-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/610555\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Two NFC teams tried to trade up to No. 9, in front of the Giants at No. 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the 10th overall pick acquired from the Bengals in the Dexter Lawrence trade, the Giants selected tackle Francis Mauioga. There\u2019s a chance he wouldn\u2019t have been available.<\/p>\n<p>Via Jori Epstein of Yahoo Sports, two NFC teams <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nfl\/article\/inside-cleveland-browns-nfl-draft-room-where-trade-calls-keep-phones-ringing-and-high-speed-databases-whir-183752960.html?guccounter=1&amp;guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly90LmNvLw&amp;guce_referrer_sig=AQAAACkpkkAboNVcCibDDi6oo5GOro-eA4R78TJI4Ry3_YJuN0phACWZJ8zixg64Gq89BnS18xIfofCF3OeqAgRrxwwLmKK11p1CUX_otV5Wjw7HxvMwZw2ZABi1aH65McW5yf3otvtbAIhaKfST-ICn1VeozvVX5uj1EYN2jAoULX0t\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">tried to trade up to No. 9<\/a> with the Browns.<\/p>\n<p>Cleveland had moved down from No. 6 to No. 9, in a trade that allowed the Chiefs to move up and select cornerback Mansoor Delane.<\/p>\n<p>The Browns didn\u2019t get an offer that made them abandon their chance to take tackle Spencer Fano in the ninth spot, but the effort made by the unnamed NFC teams underscores the risk of acquiring a pick before it\u2019s on the clock. Two NFC teams were speculating on who the Giants planned to select, and they were trying to beat them to him.<\/p>\n<p>Just like the Eagles did, when jumping from No. 23 to No. 20, one spot in front of the Steelers, for receiver Makai Lemon.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s how the draft works. Teams want who they want, and they\u2019ll often move up to get him before someone else can. In the end, the Giants didn\u2019t get leapfrogged. But two other teams in their conference tried.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the 10th overall pick acquired from the Bengals in the Dexter Lawrence trade, the Giants selected tackle&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":610556,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-610555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610555","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=610555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/610556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}