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The Giants won’t have as many open practices as their divisional rivals in Dallas or Washington during training camp this summer, but they’re well ahead of Philadelphia. The team announced its plans for camp on Thursday. There will be 10 practices open to the public at the team’s training...

The NFL unofficially is off the grid until training camp. One NFL player officially is off the grid through the end of the month. Browns receiver Odell Beckham Jr. is checking out for the next week and a half, to focus on his training. “Going away till July 1st for trainin,” Beckham posted...

The immediate reaction to the Giants’ decision to select quarterback Daniel Jones with the sixth overall pick in this year’s draft was not a positive one and things haven’t really eased up over the last two months. A prime example of that came in the Bronx on Monday night when Jones’s...

Getty Images As a tackle for the Giants, Ereck Flowers was a big bust, a ninth overall pick in the 2015 NFL draft who was cut in 2018. Now he’s getting a chance to play guard in Washington, and he may prove that with a position change he can become an NFL starter. Washington assistant head...

They’re not booing, they’re chanting, “Dave Gettleman, what did you doooooo?” OK, they were booing. Fans at Yankee Stadium booed the crown jewel of G-man’s 2019 G-men draft class on Monday night, according to multiple print and social-media accounts. There’s no video (yet) of Jones being shown...

Getty Images Rookie contracts are easier to negotiate than in the past, so most teams aren’t waiting around to do them. With most of the league finishing up minicamps this week and packing away the gear until training camp, there are only 25 unsigned picks left across the league. The bulk of...

Getty Images The Giants have two of their three first-round picks under contract. The team announced the signings of defensive tackle Dexter Lawrence and cornerback Deandre Baker on Friday. Quarterback Daniel Jones, the third first-round pick, and linebacker Oshane Ximines, a third-round...

Warner Bros. Whenever I record an episode of #PFTPM, I need to come up with a quasi-original way to get you to listen to it. Please listen to it. (Did that work?) Today’s edition looks at four open NFL issues and answers a bunch of your questions in a one-take, no-break, one-hour-plus...

Giants coach Pat Shurmur said he wasn’t trying to be cryptic. But he left enough space between the lines that you can read whatever you want into his words. Via Tom Rock of Newsday, Shurmur said that he’s “constantly” evaluating both Eli Manning and Daniel Jones, and that the one who gives the...

Raptors coach Nick Nurse made a not-so-swift decision on Monday night, taking a time out at a time when Toronto had Golden State on the ropes, and was ready to punch the Warriors through. And so that sparked an idea for Tuesday’s PFT Live draft: NFL coaching decisions that backfired. Simms...

Getty Images Corey Coleman has played 27 games, starting 19, in his three seasons. The receiver has made only 61 catches for 789 yards and five touchdowns since the Browns made him the 15th overall choice. He has spent time with four teams. This was not what he expected. Coleman, though, is...

Getty Images Landon Collins wasn’t able to tackle Saquon Barkley last year, which is good because they were teammates. But now that he’s changed sides, the Washington safety is ready to take on the Giants running back. “I’ve been ready to tackle Saquon,” Collins said, via Art Stapleton of...

Getty Images In football, “deadly” is usually a good thing to be, except when it follows the words “silent” and “but.” For the Giants, one player specifically aspires to become deadly, when it comes to getting after quarterbacks. “Deadly pass rusher” is the aspiration for Giants linebacker...

Giants rookie quarterback Daniel Jones took part in his first full-squad minicamp last week and one of his teammates noted a difference in the sixth overall pick from where he was just over a month ago. Tight end Evan Engram wasn’t practicing last week, so he got to observe Jones and said he...

Getty Images Tight end Evan Engram didn’t participate in team drills during the Giants’ mandatory minicamp. But he insists that he could have participated. “Not my choice,” Engram said Saturday, via Ryan Dunleavy of NJ.com. “One hundred percent.” Engram has an unspecified injury, but it...

Getty Images The notion of expanding the regular season schedule to 18 games has been revived recently as the NFL and NFLPA work on a new Collective Bargaining Agreement. Former Giants quarterback Phil Simms believes that a vote of all players would show they are in favor of the expansion, but...

Getty Images Pat Shurmur isn’t Odell Beckham Jr.’s coach anymore, but he does have a 38-year-old quarterback to protect. As such, the Giants head coach strained credulity Thursday by suggesting that Beckham’s fairly apparent dig at Eli Manning wasn’t really a dig at all. When Beckham was...

The Giants have said their plan for the start of the 2019 season is to have Eli Manning at quarterback while sixth overall pick Daniel Jones bides his time on the sideline, but they aren’t taking that approach with other rookies. After picking Jones, the Giants selected five defensive players...

Getty Images When Giants left tackle Nate Solder had ankle surgery earlier in the offseason, word was that he’d be ready to return to action when the team gets to training camp this summer. Solder provided an update on his recovery as the Giants wrapped up a three-day minicamp on Thursday. He...

Odell Beckham Jr. admits he’s still catching up after missing most of the Browns’ offseason program. “I’m still getting there,’’ Beckham said, via Mary Kay Cabot of cleveland.com. “You know, I feel good just to be back out here. It’s what you dreamed all your life in a new place, new...