To top off our Monday coverage of Week 8, we have a quick look at where things stand with less than 24 hours left until the trade deadline.
• The Giants deserve credit for their creativity in offloading defensive lineman Leonard Williams—because in getting the return for him that they did, the devil was in the details.
On the surface, getting a 2024 second-rounder and ’25 fifth-rounder for Williams, a versatile and good-not-great player, seems like a masterstroke. And it is just in a way you may not realize. As part of the deal, the Giants agreed to knock the remainder of Williams’s base for ’23 down to the minimum (more than $9 million of the $10 million he has left in a contract year) and pay the difference in a signing bonus.
