Jonathan Stewart‘s tenure with the Giants may not include any more games. The team will place the veteran running back on injured reserve, Jordan Raanan of ESPN.com tweets.
To replace Stewart on the 53-man roster, the Giants will promote wide receiver Jawill Davis from their practice squad, The Athletic’s Dan Duggan tweets.
A foot injury was set to keep Stewart out this weekend against the Saints, and it will shelve the 11th-year veteran for at least two months. However, Stewart doesn’t appear to be an IR-return candidate given his role through thus far.
Stewart’s received just six carries in three Giants games, amassing just 17 rushing yards for his new team. He’s played behind Saquon Barkley and Wayne Gallman. Stewart, 31, is signed for another season with the Giants. He inked a two-year, $6.9MM deal in March, but most of the $2.95MM in guarantees were due this season. It would only cost Big Blue $250K to cut the longtime starter in 2019.
Long the 1-B option alongside DeAngelo Williams with the Panthers, Stewart emerged as Carolina’s top running back for a few years after Williams departed. He started in Super Bowl 50, scoring the Panthers’ only touchdown of that game, and made his only Pro Bowl during that 2015 season. Stewart scored 23 touchdowns over the past three years, but the Panthers released him prior to free agency’s outset.
Shocker…saw this coming a mile away. Another guy stealing money this year.
Yeah really. Terrible signing. He had nothing left. I get they wanted him to help change the culture, but then sign him to the veteran minimum.
Couldn’t agree more with the other two comments. Was very surprised at not only the signing but the terms spans it being s 2year deal. I guess the extra year was added in case of a circumstance like this to extend the guaranteed momey over 2years, but really why for so much when we were up against the cap anyway.
Very curious signing. Big waste.
Wasted money. From what little he played, he was obviously finished. I guess he was supposed to mentor Barkley, and maybe he still could, just not in uniform.