One of the few Jerry Reese-era additions still on the Giants, Evan Engram is in a contract year. With the Giants in a position to be sellers ahead of another trade deadline, Engram’s name has come up around the league.
Multiple teams are interested in the fifth-year Giants tight end, according to ESPN.com’s Jeremy Fowler and Dan Graziano (ESPN+ link). Engram’s sluggish start to the season notwithstanding, certain teams remain intrigued by the former first-round pick’s skill set.
After missing two games to start the season, Engram has totaled just 171 receiving yards on 20 catches. Although we are less than halfway through the season, Engram’s 8.6-yard average checks in far below his previous career-low mark. Ahead of the Nov. 2 trade deadline, the Giants will be faced with a decision.
New York is deep at wide receiver, though the team is currently dealing with a number of injuries at that spot, but does not have a long-term tight end. No extension talks are known to have taken place this year; Engram was eyeing a bounce-back season to generate a strong 2022 free agency market. The Giants also rejected Engram overtures before last year’s trade deadline. Big Blue has traded several pieces from the Reese era in recent years. In addition to the offseason moves that sent away Jason Pierre-Paul, Odell Beckham Jr. and Olivier Vernon, the Giants dealt Eli Apple and Damon Harrison before the 2018 deadline.
Engram, 27, is playing on a manageable fifth-year option salary that contains a balance of less than $4MM. He was a somewhat surprising Pro Bowl selection last year, after hauling in 63 passes for 654 yards and a touchdown. But the former Ole Miss standout has not quite lived up to his first-round pedigree during his Big Apple stay.
VIKINGS PLEASE
Can we just take Kyle back?
Come to the Buffalo Bills baby! We need another TE to go with Dawson Knox
This stiff sucks, stay away
hahaha, I don’t believe this story. Did Gettleman leak it? Engram is a drop machine who can’t block, is frequently hurt, and has mental lapses. Just last week, Jones was rolling out and wanted to use Engram as a checkdown, but Engram ran his crossing route straight through the sidelines and out of bounds instead of stopping and giving Jones a target. The Giants acquired Kyle Rudolph because of how unreliable Engram is.
If any team truly wants him, a 5th rounder ought to get it done.
I would take it. Any other players they can move for picks before the deadline? Or are all the others either in bad contracts, injury prone, or just not good. Peppers I think could have been had for a 5th, but now on IR so that’s not happening.
So is this the big trade that is supposedly going to save Gettleman’s job?
Engram is just the beginning. Trade Barkley, Shepard, etc. No one should be untouchable
I’m thinking the team cheerleaders might be untouchable.
I’m sure someone is touching them
Barkley and Shepard can’t stay healthy. Neither will bring back much. Maybe a 7th rounder.
Agreed, I think all should be traded. Need as much draft capital as possible.
Gettleman’s job isn’t gettin saved. In fact he should have been fired this week so the interim GM can handle all the deadline trades. Otherwise Getty has little inactive to move players if he is trying to save his job.
Unfortunately for the Giants they don’t have Cheerleaders
Nor do they have a capable
GM.
No, no. Love the giants suck as they do now. Screw NY teams
With a surplus at WR and the fact butterfingers has not fixed the drop problems, fine trading him for some line help (either line)