The New York Giants couldn’t dive deep in the free agent waters this past offseason but dove deep enough to find some offensive line upgrades.
One of those players was Indianapolis Colts interior lineman Mark Glowinski, who they inked to three-year, $20 million deal. That expenditure gives Glowinski the inside track at a starting position on the line this season.
At the team’s OTAs, Glowinski has been lining up with the ‘ones’ at right guard next to first-round draft pick Evan Neal, who is the new right tackle.
“Just dominant,” Glowinski said of Neal on Thursday. “As long as he gets his hands on guys, that’s the end of the story. So just making sure that we put him in the right place; make sure that he is doing the right things. He has come along drastically every day, learning more and more.”
Glowinski, 30, has been in the NFL since 2015 when he was a fourth-round pick of the Seattle Seahawks. After three years in Seattle, Glowinski spent four seasons with the Colts where he opened holes for the league’s top rusher, Jonathan Taylor.
This year, Glowinski will front for another top back in Saquon Barkley. He was asked to compare the two.
“Similar physicality. They’re both big, strong guys,” said Glowinski. “Very explosive. You can tell they kind of have similar build, but you know Saquon still has the bigger quads and stuff like that.
“They’re both very smart. They want to be the best that they can be. They would have the similar tendencies to want to know exactly what we’re doing so that they can pick up stuff in the pass. Especially the way that this offense is going to be ran, that would be very important.”
Glowinski is being relied upon to get head coach Brian Daboll’s offense off the ground. He likes what he sees thus far.
“I love that we were able to bring in guys from previous schemes and to show us the way of how the offense is supposed to be ran, but we brought in guys that are feisty, hungry guys that want to win and want to play hard,” he said.
“We’re doing our best to learn one another, compete with one another, gel as much as we can, spend as much time as we can, in the lunch, breakfast room and everything. We just want to understand one another, but we have young talent, and we also have older guys that we’ve come across one another in the past, so we understand those guys.”
