Veteran center\/guard Austin Schlottmann showed the value of having capable veteran backup offensive linemen in 2025, when he played well in four starts for the New York Giants as a fill-in for John Michael Schmitz.<\/p>\n
Schlottmann, 30, posted a career-best 70.8 Pro Football Focus grade while playing 362 snaps, also a career-high. According to PFF, Schlottmann had a phenomenal 99.2 pass blocking efficiency rating, allowing just three pressures in 212 pass blocking snaps.<\/p>\n
Reasons to keep Schlottmann<\/p>\n
Schlottmann is a perfectly capable backup at center or either guard position. He understands the role and is a plus to have on a roster. He is also inexpensive, having carried a salary cap hit of just $1.42 million in 2025.<\/p>\n
Reasons to let Schlottmann go<\/p>\n
Will his presence be superfluous? It will be if the Giants invest heavily on the interior of the offensive line and bring back Greg Van Roten as a backup. Van Roten, with experience at both guards and center, could fill that same three-position backup role. The cost would be more, but only marginally so.<\/p>\n
I would like to see him back. Again, though, it depends. If the Giants are penciling Van Roten into that backup role, spending money on Schlottmann would likely be unnecessary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Veteran center\/guard Austin Schlottmann showed the value of having capable veteran backup offensive linemen in 2025, when he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":757600,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2067],"tags":[7,519,1917,56,7558,2321,2469,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-757599","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-giants","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-giants","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-giants","12":"tag-new-york-giants-free-agency","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkgiants","15":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116084468897790424","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757599","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=757599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/757600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=757599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=757599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=757599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}