The Giants tried their darnedest to find a trade for Ereck Flowers during the draft, so the former first-round pick is understandably concerned about his football future. On Tuesday, the tackle hired Drew Rosenhaus to represent him, the agent announced on Twitter.
Flowers entered the NFL without the services of an agent in order to avoid paying out a portion of his contract. Later on, he hired his own father as an advisor once he obtained the proper certification from the NFLPA. Everald Flowers will continue to serve as a rep for his son, but Rosenhaus will ostensibly be in charge of either smoothing things out with the Giants or navigating him to a better situation for 2018.
Flowers has started at left tackle for the G-Men for the past three seasons, but he’s presently in line to compete for the team’s right tackle job after the signing of free agent Nate Solder. The Giants are not expected to pick up Flowers’ fifth-year option before the Thursday deadline, so he’s effectively entering his contract year. Even if another team acquires Flowers in the next 48 hours, it seems unlikely that he’d have the $12.525MM option exercised.
If the Giants release Flowers outright, they’ll save themselves $2.2MM in roster bonuses, but they’ll be left with nearly $4.6MM in dead money.
Gonna pay Drew 20% to tell him he sucks
Drew better start calling Calgary and Winnipeg this turd is not NFL material
I think he’s NFL material on the right side of the line and even just on the bench.
Drew will have him doing sit ups in his drive way soon!
lol… drew isn’t going to make him suck any less.
Good run blocker- terrible pass blocker- attitude issues
I totally agree. He needs to take some ballet classes so he can finetune his footwork.