The Giants made a quick flip on a player they hadn’t even seen in a game yet, sending Daniel Faalele to the Jacksonville Jaguars before he ever took a snap in New York.
Evan Barnes of NewsdaySports reported the move, writing: "BREAKING NEWS: The Giants are trading offensive lineman Daniel Faalele to the Jaguars for a late-round 2027 pick, a league source confirmed to Newsday,"
Faalele, a 6-foot-8, 370-pound offensive lineman, had joined the Giants in April on a one-year, $1,402,500 contract. It was a modest deal, but one that stood out because of his size and his background with John Harbaugh, who the Giants hired as their new head coach after the Baltimore Ravens fired him this past offseason.
Harbaugh’s arrival in New York also brought in former Ravens tight end Isaiah Likely, and Faalele was part of that same wave of familiar faces. But the Giants moved him along anyway, sending him to a Jaguars team that recently lost Patrick Mekari to injury for a while.
Faalele is 26 and has started 34 games over the past two seasons, but none of that wound up mattering in a Giants uniform. He never played a down for New York in the regular season, and the team still turned that signing into a late-round pick in the 2027 draft.
For the Giants, it was a low-risk addition that ended up becoming a low-cost asset. They didn’t view him as a starter, so moving him now made sense, and getting anything back for him is a solid outcome with the regular season closing in.
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