The Giants are done with Kelvin Benjamin. The wide receiver-turned-tight end will be released following a Wednesday blowup with team officials (Twitter link via NJ.com’s Steve Politi). 
Benjamin was seen jawing with head coach Joe Judge and GM Dave Gettleman before storming off of the practice field. Now, he’s off the team.
Benjamin joined up with the G-Men earlier this year in an effort to reboot his career at a new position. Gettleman drafted him in 2014 — as a receiver — but he hadn’t shown his first-round potential in years. At 6’5″ and 245 pounds, Benjamin has the bulk to play TE. However, he’ll have to try his hand somewhere else now.
In his first pro season, Benjamin had 1,008 yards and nine touchdowns. After missing 2015 with a torn ACL, he had 941 yards and seven touchdowns in 2016. He was traded to the Bills midway through the 2017 season, and his career went downhill quickly after that.
With Evan Engram and free agent acquisition Kyle Rudolph, the Giants don’t necessarily need Benjamin or the drama.
Another genius…
And that’s how you seal your career. Nice job lmao
Hasn’t played in two years, hasn’t played well in four years, on his fourth team, and trying a new position. Decides to get into an altercation with his coach *and* GM. Smooth move, enjoy retirement.
Has anyone been able to confirm the whole crux of the issue was him stealing food?
The only thing I see on Twitter is from a @WesSteinberg, and it looks like that might be a troll account. I’m unfamiliar with it, but looking at his other tweets, I think it’s a troll.
Yea I was tagged and looked at it briefly, saw it said giants reporter and whatever’d it. But upon a deeper glance I think you’re right.
Read that the twitter story was all a hoax.
Yeah, he’s not playing again.
Call Ryan Pace. If he had his way he’d have 90 TE’s in camp.
If you left that zero off that number, you’d be legitimately correct. Like, in a non-joking sense.
But then they have to start cutting them for kickers, so…
Gettleman sure knows about character in players.
Dumbass
He’ll bleed gravy
Well that went well…great career move, Kelvin
I certainly hope he feels he was effective in whatever point he was arguing…
Love the jack wagons at Trade Rumors who are either lazy or have different goal but using a picture from the Bills vs using Carolina who drafted him, KC his last team or even Giants who released him
Not the first player with similar situation, just used picture of Bills when Vikings coach had issues
some repurposing of pictures require authorization from the creator and/or creative rights with a notation of author. plus most probably only remember him from his panther days
Man Getty picks some winners. Too fat to be a TE, anyway.
Talented but supremely lazy. Left at least $50 million on the table, had Benjamin’s play and fitness been consistent with his talent.
By tomorrow he will have arranged for someone to write up a sincere sounding apology with words that he couldn’t even pronounce if his life depended on it.
Is Kyle Rudolph healthy enough to play TE for the Giants?
Will he even be able to take the field for them in 2021-22?
I think he’ll have a reduced role as compared to his time in Minnesota. His health will likely impact his blocking ability more than his receiving ability, and he was never known as a great blocker as is. Levine Toilolo will probably see a lot of time blocking, as neither Rudolph nor Engram profile as great in that department. Rudolph is expected to be useful in red zone production, and I expect that we’ll see a lot of him and Toilolo there, with him as a primary receiving option and Toilolo as blocking primary and receiving secondary. Toilolo is 6’8” and Rusolph is 6’6” and both are large in build, so it should give New York some options if done right.
Some players are never under control…… another hot head….
So ?
This moron just doesn’t get it. He weight 265 at minicamp, they tell him to come back at 251 yet shows up at 268 then argues that the added weight is all muscle. Argued with the coach and then publicly ripped his abilities. He’s done in this league when he just blew his only chance with somebody willing to stick their neck out for him.