{"id":64293,"date":"2025-05-20T07:05:19","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T07:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/64293\/"},"modified":"2025-05-20T07:05:19","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T07:05:19","slug":"the-giants-have-a-worrisome-financial-situation-on-their-hands-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/64293\/","title":{"rendered":"The Giants have a worrisome financial situation on their hands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before the <a href=\"https:\/\/empiresportsmedia.com\/category\/new-york-giants\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:New York Giants;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">New York Giants<\/a> can <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/article\/giants-hosting-free-agent-wide-221805916.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:make any more additions;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">make any more additions<\/a> to their roster, they need to create some salary cap space. While the Giants are a cap-healthy team in the long term, they are tight on money in the present.<\/p>\n<p>The Giants are out of salary cap space<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/overthecap.com\/salary-cap\/new-york-giants\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:According to Over The Cap;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">According to Over The Cap<\/a>, the Giants have only $1.1 million in cap space \u2014 the least in the NFL.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/overthecap.com\/salary-cap-space\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:In effective cap space;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">In effective cap space<\/a>, which is the cap space a team will have after signing at least 51 players and its projected rookie class to its roster, the Giants are in the red at -$9.3 million.<\/p>\n<p>Making roster moves to create cap space has become a necessity for the Giants as they prepare for the summer.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Jul 24, 2024; East Rutherford, NJ, USA; New York Giants general manager Joe Schoen talks to media before the start of training camp at Quest Diagnostics Training Facility. Mandatory Credit: Vincent Carchietta-Imagn Images\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1dc456b2f4010e00e29c9f74da2dcdc7.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Credit: Vincent Carchietta-Imagn Images<\/p>\n<p>How can the Giants free up more money?<\/p>\n<p>Although the Giants are in a tight financial situation right now, they have plenty of time to make some moves to clear some cap space, and they have plenty of moves to make.<\/p>\n<p>They could restructure the contracts of Andrew Thomas, Dexter Lawrence, and\/or Brian Burns for up to $38 million in cap savings ($16.1 million from Burns, $9.8 million from Lawrence, and $12.5 million from Thomas).<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Syndication: The Record, new york giants, NFL: New York Giants at Seattle Seahawks, dexter lawrence\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/d6f0ebc0c2add51b1868d70b2e6e41c8.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Credit: Julian Leshay Guadalupe\/NorthJersey.com \/ USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images<\/p>\n<p>Outside of the contract restructures, there are some players who could become cap casualties as the Giants make moves to free up money. Notable names who could be released for cap relief include K Graham Gano ($4.1 million in savings), TE Daniel Bellinger ($3.4 million), CB Cor\u2019Dale Flott ($3.4 million), OL Joshua Ezeudu ($1.4 million), and DT Rakeem Nunez-Roches ($3.6 million).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Before the New York Giants can make any more additions to their roster, they need to create some&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64294,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2067],"tags":[8190,1483,6049,5047,1489,7,519,6652,20237,20239,1917,56,2321,2469,6,1967,20238],"class_list":{"0":"post-64293","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-giants","8":"tag-andrew-thomas","9":"tag-brian-burns","10":"tag-cap-space","11":"tag-daniel-bellinger","12":"tag-dexter-lawrence","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-giants","15":"tag-graham-gano","16":"tag-indiana-convention-center","17":"tag-joshua-ezeudu","18":"tag-new-york","19":"tag-new-york-giants","20":"tag-newyork","21":"tag-newyorkgiants","22":"tag-nfl","23":"tag-nfl-scouting-combine","24":"tag-rakeem-nunez-roches"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114538894715553887","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}