As ESPN Reported, the Giants GM has traded Jason Pierre Paul to the Tampa Bay Bucs for Tampa's 3rd rounder, plus their fourth round pick, in exchange for JPP and the Giants fourth round pick.
JPP has never been the same after blowing up his hand in an ill-advised fireworks accident and the Giants are moving on from him at age 29.
But, what on earth does this have to do with the Broncos I hear you ask? Obviously, the Giants now need a monster pass-rushing DE. And they, not at all coincidentally, I mean not even a bit, happen to have the #2 pick of the draft. And sitting there like a ripe orange is Bradley Chubb, DE of NC State, whom the Giants just not-at-all-coincidentally have just visited.
And the Giants like QB Sam Darnold of USC but the Browns are now set to take him at #1 and not trade that pick. So, the Giants do not get the QB they coveted as the next Eli Manning, and so they go to Plan B, and take the #2 guy on their board - Bradley Chubb.
So the Giants will take Chubb, or else they would never have dealt Jason Pierre Paul, who got 8 sacks last year. They're looking for a better, cheaper upgrade.Giants held private visit with Bradley Chubb, will meet again
The New York Giants are courting defensive end prospect Bradley Chubb.
Bradley Chubb is now squarely on the New York Giants radar with the No. 2 overall pick in the 2018 NFL Draft following the team's decision to trade defensive end Jason Pierre-Paul on Thursday.
According to NFL Network's Ian Rapoport, the Giants have already met privately with the North Carolina State edge rusher and plan to bring him into the facility for another visit with the new regime before the 2018 NFL Draft. Chubb is widely viewed as the best pass rusher in the entire draft class and someone who can immediately replace Pierre-Paul as a potentially better fit in new defensive coordinator James Bettcher's hybrid defensive scheme. Earlier this week, the Giants also sent defensive line coach Gary Emanuel to North Carolina State’s Pro Day to get an up-close look at Chubb.
This of course means that Rosen, Allen and Mayfield are probably available for the Broncos if they want to trade up, assuming that the Browns take Darnold as expected.
The Jets who cleverly moved up to #3 to ****-block the Broncos and Bills path to Josh Allen (or potentially Baker Mayfield) are now out-maneuvered, because the Giants are now set to trade down out of the #2 pick to the Broncos if they want that #2 pick.
It also increases the chance of the Broncos trading up to #2, because the Browns are widely expected to take a QB #1 and not trade that pick, and the Giants are now committed to drafting Bradley Chubb, which they can conveniently do at #5 while picking up extra draft picks from the Broncos, since the Colts, who were smugly congratulating themselves that they had outmaneuvered everybody and were now set to not only get Chubb, but also three 2nd round picks, in a classic win-win, now are eating large Moose-turds.
The Giants will be able to either take Chubb themselves at #2 if John Elway doesn't want to make a trade, or else trade down to #5 and still take Chubb ahead of the Colts at #6. "Clever girl."
And the Colts aren't going to jump back up to #4 to get Chubb ahead of the Giants because that would waste all the draft capital they acquired by moving down. They would look like complete morons if they did that!
Elway undoubtedly saw all this instantly as soon as he heard the news. Even before he reaches out to the Giants to see what it would take to move up (even if he has no intention of doing it, he'd sensibly want to know whether the Giants would now want to move down to #5 and take Chubb), he is now in a position where he has a choice to make.
He can either stick with what appears to be the plan to stand pat with Case Keenum for this season and either take a player at #5 or else trade back, or else trade up to #2 and get ahead of the Jets for a QB. And at #2 he'd have Rosen, Allen or Mayfield to choose from assuming the Browns took Darnold as expected (or else the Giants would not trade, but take Darnold).
I don't think he's going to do it, but I wanted to point out the possibility now openly exists because the Giants are committed. They no longer have TPP and his 8 sacks. They have to replace that production somehow.