{"id":867595,"date":"2026-04-16T09:13:43","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T09:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/867595\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T09:13:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T09:13:43","slug":"brian-burns-wants-dexter-lawrence-a-giants-as-contract-drama-grows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/867595\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian Burns wants Dexter Lawrence a Giants as contract drama grows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is no official stat for how many of Brian Burns\u2019 career-high 16.5 sacks were made easier by Dexter Lawrence commanding double teams nearby, but Burns isn\u2019t really interested in figuring out how much harder his job will be if the Giants trade Lawrence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSpeaking for me, the Giants ain\u2019t the Giants without No. 97 in the middle,\u201d Burns told The Post. \u201cSo\u00a0we are going to figure that out to keep him here regardless, I hope. That\u2019s my boy. And I don\u2019t want to play this season or any other season without him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Burns-Lawrence friendship started two years ago at a charity softball game hosted by Lawrence and Giants superfan Joe Ruback (License Plate Guy).<\/p>\n<p>Burns was scheduled to take over this year\u2019s edition of that game (2 p.m. May 30 at Clover Stadium in Pomona) even before Lawrence requested a trade from the Giants, who have not met his demand for a new contract. The feud now has<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/15\/sports\/the-truth-about-giants-alleged-dexter-lawrence-trade-talks\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> escalated into \u201cbroken-down\u201d negotiations <\/a>as Lawrence stays away from voluntary offseason workouts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There is no official stat for how many of Brian Burns\u2019 career-high 16.5 sacks were made easier by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":867596,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2067],"tags":[1483,1489,7,519,201,2909,1917,56,2321,2469,6,9,3248],"class_list":{"0":"post-867595","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-giants","8":"tag-brian-burns","9":"tag-dexter-lawrence","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-giants","12":"tag-joe-schoen","13":"tag-john-harbaugh","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-giants","16":"tag-newyork","17":"tag-newyorkgiants","18":"tag-nfl","19":"tag-sports","20":"tag-sports-plus"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116413622987004965","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867595","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=867595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/867596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=867595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=867595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=867595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}