The Giants’ pursuit of Jonathan Taylor may not be dead yet, but John Harbaugh isn’t acting like anything is close.
After a report surfaced Sunday saying New York had offered the Colts second- and fifth-round picks for the running back before pulling the deal off the table, Harbaugh addressed the situation following the Giants’ 19-11 win. He didn’t confirm a breakthrough, but he also didn’t shut the door.
“I’d say we’re open for any kind of situation, but I will say this, things do change,” Harbaugh said, via a transcript from the Eagles. “Things change from day-to-day.
So it’s not like one day you may do something and the next day something happens and it changes your position. I’m not saying that report’s not true.
Those conversations are taking place and if something happens for any player, I can’t talk about any player because they’re with other teams right now, but we’re not ruling anything out, but I don’t see anything particularly imminent right now either. So we’ll see what happens.”
Jay Glazer of Fox Sports reported that the Giants had made the offer and then removed it after the Colts declined. The timing matters, because Indianapolis dropped to 2-7 after losing to the Cowboys on Sunday, a record that could push the team toward valuing future draft capital even more heavily.
The Giants, meanwhile, are sitting at 5-2-1 and still have a real shot at the division. Their running game hasn’t exactly forced anyone’s hand - the group managed just 51 yards on 24 carries Sunday - but the standings give New York a different kind of leverage. With a path to the playoffs in front of them, they could be more willing to push in now than they were when talks with the Colts first started.
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