5:34pm: This market moved fast. The Giants’ push for Floyd did not end in a deal. The Rams are bringing him back. Although other edge rushers remain available, the market is thinning. Floyd, Yannick Ngakoue and Matt Judon have chosen their teams.
5:31pm: Featuring an edge-rushing need for a couple of years now, the Giants are trying to poach the Rams’ top outside sack artist. They are making a push to sign Leonard Floyd, per Dianna Russini of ESPN.com (on Twitter).
The Rams have not given up on re-signing Floyd; they remain in talks with the former first-round pick. The Giants are not in the finalizing stage yet here, Russini adds, so a bidding war may be taking place.
A Floyd agreement would be interesting for the Giants, who have used their franchise tag on Leonard Williams. A two-Leonard front seven would make re-signing Dalvin Tomlinson quite difficult. The Williams tag has left the Giants with less than $3MM in cap space, so the team still has moves to make ahead of the March 17 start to the 2021 league year.
I don’t think so!
If it keeps them from signing Dalvin Tomlinson, then I don’t really see the point, unless they plan on drafting Tomlinson’s replacement. But they have big holes to fill already with the draft.