A trade! On a day where a bunch of bottom of the roster guys are getting let go as NFL teams trim their rosters to 85 players, the Texans and Giants made time to work out a deal.
Houston is sending cornerback Keion Crossen to New York, a source told Doug Kyed of Pro Football Focus (Twitter link). In exchange the Giants will send back a 2023 sixth-round pick, Mike Garafolo of NFL Network tweets. Crossen originally entered the league as a seventh-round pick of the Patriots in 2018. He won Super Bowl LIII with the team, but was traded to the Texans the following August.
Although he’s a cornerback and actually started four games on defense for Houston this past year, he’s mostly known as a special teams standout. As many were quick to point out, Giants head coach Joe Judge was Crossen’s special teams coordinator his rookie season in New England.
His first two years as a pro he was almost exclusively a special teams guy, but last season he was pressed into some action for an undermanned Houston defense and finished with 46 tackles and five passes defended.
I imagine Dave Gettleman will get a lucrative contract extension after pulling off this blockbuster deal.
Can the head coach get into another screaming match? Last year it was the OL coach I believe. And this year the WR turned TE turned cut dude.
The OL coach, Colombo, didn’t like that another consultant was being brought in and got cursed out Judge in front of others. Not sure I’d totally place the onus on Judge there.
Benjamin has played his way off multiple teams and came into camp overweight and then immediately went crying to the media. Not sure that one is Judge’s fault, either.
Appreciate the recap. I forgot the merits of the OL situation, just remember the story.
Will we see a reciprocal move to bring Keoin Crossen’s twin brother Kris Crossen in for that locker room magic. Tonight’s the night to jump on that
I’m not sure the Giants want to be accused of double Crossen opponents. They should leave the dirty tricks approach to Belichick.
Giants are lost in front office. You build a team from the lines out. Instead we take a WR we didn’t need and trade for a CB we don’t need while completely lacking depth on both lines. Gettleman hasn’t learned a thing.
Texans have lots of spot starters at LB, TE, and DL we’d more than happy to flip for 5th or 6th round pics, lol. In all seriousness, I do like the strategy of signing and playing vets in the 28 to 31 year old range who were former starters and flipping them to teams for late draft picks to fill in for injuries and suspensions. Those late round picks can help move up in package draft day deals.