{"id":863798,"date":"2026-04-11T08:06:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T08:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/863798\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T08:06:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T08:06:28","slug":"what-the-giants-could-do-at-edge-rusher-in-the-2026-nfl-draft-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/863798\/","title":{"rendered":"What the Giants could do at edge rusher in the 2026 NFL Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"NY<\/a>Fri, April 10, 2026 at 11:50 PM UTC\"An<\/p>\n

An image collage containing 1 images, Image 1 shows Dani Dennis-Sutton of the Penn State Nittany Lions participates in a drill during the 2026 NFL Scouting Combine at Lucas Oil Stadium on February 26, 2026 in Indianapolis, Indiana. <\/p>\n

Sure, this roster feels set at the edge rusher spot \u2014 with Brian Burns coming off his finest NFL season<\/a>, Kayvon Thibodeaux returning from a shoulder injury and Abdul Carter coming off an interesting rookie year<\/a>.<\/p>\n

What was it that former general manager Ernie Accorsi used to say about edge rushers? They are like starting pitchers \u2014 you can never have enough or too many.<\/p>\n

This does not mean the Giants will take one at No. 5, and they are likely to pass up this position on Day 2 of the draft.<\/p>\n

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Dani Dennis-Sutton of the Penn State Nittany Lions participates in a drill during the 2026 NFL Scouting Combine at Lucas Oil Stadium on February 26, 2026 in Indianapolis, Indiana. Getty Images<\/p>\n

But you never know. And if Rueben Bain Jr. is sitting there at No. 5? Maybe a trade down with a team that covets Bain to add more picks.<\/p>\n

If GM Joe Schoen and the scouting department on Day 3 are high on someone such as Malachi Lawrence (UCF), Trey Moore (Texas), Dani Dennis-Sutton (Penn State) or George Gumbs Jr. (Florida), perhaps a match will be made.<\/p>\n

Still, new defensive coordinator Dennard Wilson will find it a challenge to get Burns, Carter and Thibodeaux on the field at the same time \u2014 not a bad problem to deal with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fri, April 10, 2026 at 11:50 PM UTC An image collage containing 1 images, Image 1 shows Dani…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":863799,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2067],"tags":[291,1483,6756,14661,117418,380,7,117419,519,755,34104,1917,56,2321,2469,6,1967,948,2743,32194,5027,51],"class_list":{"0":"post-863798","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-giants","8":"tag-abdul-carter","9":"tag-brian-burns","10":"tag-dani-dennis-sutton","11":"tag-edge-rusher","12":"tag-ernie-accorsi","13":"tag-florida","14":"tag-football","15":"tag-george-gumbs-jr","16":"tag-giants","17":"tag-kayvon-thibodeaux","18":"tag-malachi-lawrence","19":"tag-new-york","20":"tag-new-york-giants","21":"tag-newyork","22":"tag-newyorkgiants","23":"tag-nfl","24":"tag-nfl-scouting-combine","25":"tag-penn-state","26":"tag-penn-state-nittany-lions","27":"tag-rueben-bain-jr","28":"tag-shoulder-injury","29":"tag-texas"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116385049367074929","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863798","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=863798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/863799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=863798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=863798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=863798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}