A report from ahead of this past weekend shared that New York Giants pass-rusher Kayvon Thibodeaux could “fetch a late Day 2 or early Day 3” draft pick if the Giants looked to trade him this offseason.
It sounds like Thibodeaux may have played his final game in a Big Blue jersey.
Giants reportedly prefer to make this Kayvon Thibodeaux move
For an article published on Monday, NFL insider Connor Hughes of SNY revealed that teams learned during the scouting combine that the Giants “would prefer to” trade Thibodeaux rather than see how he would perform for the club while in a contract year.
“Most league sources SNY contacted found it difficult to envision a team parting with more than a fourth-round pick for Thibodeaux,” Hughes added. “The question for the Giants: is that compensation, along with $14.75M in salary cap relief, sufficient? League sources expect New York to ultimately move him.”
Thibodeaux never became the game-changing force the Giants hoped they were getting when they made him the fifth overall pick of the 2022 NFL Draft. Most recently, he was limited to just 22 games due to injury issues over the past two seasons. While he tallied a total of eight sacks across those contests, he seemingly has been deemed surplus to requirements for a club that also has Brian Burns and Abdul Carter able to pursue quarterbacks.
Back in March 2024, the Giants signed Burns
to a five-year, $141M contract. Last spring, they made Carter the third overall pick of the 2025 draft.
Trading Kayvon Thibodeaux the latest sign of Giants’ organizational shift?
The perception exists that Giants general manager Joe Schoen has lost power within the organization following the hirings of new head coach John Harbaugh and new senior vice president of football operations and strategy Dawn Aponte. Hughes suggested that Thibodeaux being made available is the latest sign of how things have changed now that Harbaugh and not Schoen seems to be running the club’s football operations.
“When it was largely Schoen’s operation — albeit with input from others — there was reluctance to part with his draft picks,” Hughes noted. “That helps explain why wide receiver Jalin Hyatt and cornerback Deonte Banks remain on the roster. Those selections were repeatedly given the benefit of the doubt, at times with assistant coaches paying the price for a lack of development.”
It sounds like Thibodeaux could become just one of the handful of draft misses Schoen has been responsible for since the Giants hired the executive in January 2022.