{"id":857366,"date":"2026-04-06T18:49:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T18:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/857366\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T18:49:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T18:49:15","slug":"three-time-pro-bowl-dt-dexter-lawrence-requests-trade-from-giants-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/857366\/","title":{"rendered":"Three-time Pro Bowl DT Dexter Lawrence requests trade from Giants: sources"},"content":{"rendered":"

Star defensive tackle Dexter Lawrence has requested a trade from the Giants<\/a> and will not report to the facility Tuesday, sources told the Daily News on Monday, lobbing a grenade into the start of John Harbaugh\u2019s first offseason program as the team\u2019s head coach.<\/p>\n

Lawrence, 28, asking out of town is not a shock even though it is big news. The two-time, second-team All-Pro\u2019s discontent<\/a> has been simmering to a boil for a couple years.<\/p>\n

Since his last payday in May 2024, negotiations on a raise have not gone to his liking, and the Giants have won seven of their 34 regular season games.<\/p>\n

Lawrence immediately recorded a career high nine sacks in 2024 in the first season of his new contract, which averages $22.5 million per season. But the Giants only were willing to add a few million of incentives onto his contract for 2025. Then the game-wrecking interior defensive lineman had a down year coming off surgery for a dislocated elbow.<\/p>\n

Still, Lawrence<\/a> is widely viewed as one of the most disruptive defensive players in the NFL when healthy, commanding frequent double teams. And while he has toiled in New York, he has watched three of his good friends and closest teammates leave town and win Super Bowls: the Philadelphia Eagles\u2019 Saquon Barkley and the Seattle Seahawks\u2019 Leonard Williams and Julian Love.<\/p>\n

Harbaugh now arrives promising a more grueling practice regimen coming off a fired staff of enablers in former coach Brian Daboll and defensive line coach Andre Patterson, and Lawrence is being asked to lead this franchise out of the darkness without the proper compensation to back up what he means to the team\u2019s bottom line.<\/p>\n

Lawrence is due to make $20 million this season. He has two years remaining on his contract, which is tied for only the 11th best average annual value among defensive tackles in the league. That is well below the Chiefs\u2019 Chris Jones ($31.75 million), not to mention the Patriots\u2019 Milton Williams ($26 million) and Eagles\u2019 Jordan Davis ($26 million), among several others.<\/p>\n

Harbaugh said at the NFL Combine in late February said that the D-tackle known as \u2018Sexy Dexy\u2019 was a \u201ccornerstone football player\u201d whom the Giants \u201cneed.\u201d But the coach had not met Lawrence in person yet at that point and seemed to underestimate how serious Lawrence\u2019s doubt about the future was.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s my job to assure him,\u201d Harbaugh said at the NFL Combine. \u201cIt\u2019s like, \u2018Let\u2019s go to work together. We\u2019re both together for a reason.\u2019 I look at it that way. That\u2019s just how I just view the universe. There\u2019s purpose. So we\u2019re Giants. He and I together. God brought us together for this very time. So what are we gonna do with it?<\/p>\n

\u201cI had that conversation with him,\u201d the coach continued. \u201cI feel like he feels that way. He\u2019s excited. So I really don\u2019t have to think that way, because I already know we\u2019re there. How important is he? Really important. Super important. He\u2019s a cornerstone football player. He\u2019s more like a middle stone. He\u2019s right in the middle. But he\u2019s a very big stone and he\u2019s a very active, athletic stone. So we want him in there. We want him. We need him.\u201d<\/p>\n

GM Joe Schoen, who received a D+ grade from his players in the NFLPA\u2019s most recent polling, pretended at the NFL Combine that he didn\u2019t even know why he was being asked about Lawrence as a possible trade chip or contract issue.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know where the Dex stuff\u2019s coming from,\u201d Schoen said.<\/p>\n

The GM noted that \u201cnine sacks might have been an outlier the year before, so the expectation rises,\u201d as an apparent defense of keeping Lawrence\u2019s pay at status quo with his sack total dropping to 0.5 in 2025. Schoen also said \u201cthe plan is for Dexter to be on the roster\u201d and he hadn\u2019t received any trade calls on him.<\/p>\n

When Schoen was asked about Lawrence\u2019s contract again at the NFL Owners meetings last week, though, the GM\u2019s tone was different in the word salad he offered on the subject.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have a lot of those conversations as we continue to build or to your point, open up money, like where can we do it?\u201d Schoen said. \u201cCan we do an extension with other players? What does that look like? We\u2019re always having those conversations not only with Dexter but on other players, and that\u2019s part of our mapping out the offseason and planning.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now the situation is out of the Giants\u2019 control.<\/p>\n

Lawrence has been exhausted from all the losing and dysfunction and from being underpaid through all of it, while watching several trusted friends and teammates prove the grass actually is greener elsewhere. So he doesn\u2019t just want to be appreciated and compensated appropriately anymore.<\/p>\n

He wants out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Star defensive tackle Dexter Lawrence has requested a trade from the Giants and will not report to the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":857367,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2067],"tags":[116990,7,519,1917,56,2321,2469,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-857366","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-giants","8":"tag-dexter-lawrence-trade-request","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-giants","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-giants","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkgiants","15":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116359264596765862","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857366","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=857366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/857367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=857366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=857366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=857366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}