{"id":773718,"date":"2026-02-24T17:41:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T17:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/773718\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T17:41:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T17:41:17","slug":"2026-nfl-draft-giants-joe-schoen-open-to-trading-back-from-no-5-talks-prep-with-john-harbaugh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/773718\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 NFL Draft: Giants\u2019 Joe Schoen open to trading back from No. 5, talks prep with John Harbaugh"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Giants general manager Joe Schoen talks to the media during the NFL Combine.<\/p>\n

Trevor Ruszkowski-USA TODAY Sports<\/p>\n

New York Giants general manager Joe Schoen admitted that he would be open to trading his No. 5 overall pick at the 2026 NFL Draft on Tuesday at the Combine.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re going to look at all options,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019re open to moving back if an opportunity is there. We\u2019re also fine staying and taking a player there. If you can\u2019t get out of 5, there\u2019s always a chance in the second round if you want to move back, or if there\u2019s a good player, you can sit and take him, or you can move back into the first round. We\u2019re going to keep all our options open.\u201d<\/p>\n

Schoen and new head coach John Harbaugh have plenty of avenues to explore with that top-five pick. They could draft a top-rated offensive lineman should left tackle Jermaine Eluemunor leave in free agency, or bring in another promising wide receiver to lineup alongside Malik Nabers and expand quarterback Jaxson Dart\u2019s arsenal of outside weapons.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Harbaugh, of course, is going to have considerable say in which direction the Giants go. Schoen is getting one last chance to prove that he can build a winning team despite being the main constructor of rosters that went a combined 7-27<\/a> over the last two years.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The former Baltimore Ravens\u2019 head coach helped build a consistent competitor during his nearly two decades. He made the playoffs in 12 of his 18 seasons in charge of the AFC North franchise.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cCoach and I\u2019s communication has been great. When he got here, it\u2019s the first time you\u2019re going through everything together,\u201d Schoen said. \u201cSo how did you guys do this in Baltimore? OK, this is how we did it. OK, we\u2019re doing that exactly the same. Then we get to Pro Days, how did you guys operate with Pro Days? The process is the same. It\u2019s just overcommunicating on how we do things vs. how they did things in Baltimore, or how he wants it done. They drafted well in Baltimore, and they won a lot of games. We don\u2019t have all the answers. There are tweaks we can make in our process, and I\u2019m open to that.\u201d<\/p>\n

For more on the Giants, visit AMNY.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Giants general manager Joe Schoen talks to the media during the NFL Combine. Trevor Ruszkowski-USA TODAY Sports New…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":773719,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2067],"tags":[7,519,201,1917,56,2321,2469,6,9],"class_list":{"0":"post-773718","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-joe-schoen","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-giants","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkgiants","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116126843209997215","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773718","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=773718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/773719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=773718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=773718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=773718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}