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Giants trade #2

Buccaneers receive:
C Frank Ragnow (94 overall, 26 years old)

Giants receive:
LOLB Lorenzo Carter (83, 24)
LG Lucas Patrick (79, 29)
LE Damien Wilkes (76, 24)

The Giants will incur a $1.85 mil cap penalty to turn a $7.97 mil cap hit into $7.39 mil in cap hits

The Bucs will incur $2.14 mil in cap penalties to turn $8.71 mil in cap hits into a $6.12 mil cap hit

The Bucs haven't had much talent at the C position in quite some time, and with how badly their offense has largely been over the past several seasons, they could use the additional talent. They lose some valuable depth and aren't in the greatest cap situation, but they need to swing for the fences and pick up a buy-low candidate who was once an excellent C for the Dolphins.

The Giants have a bit of a logjam at C with three 90+ at the position. Billy Price put up an excellent 51 and 5 line last season. McNeil played at G and had a sterling 36 and 2 mark. Ragnow has been a major disappointment with a 47 and 14 ratio in his first season with the Giants and a preseason, season-ending injury in his second season as the Giants made it to the NFC Championship game. Ragnow also cost $2.5+ mil against the cap over the other two, so Ragnow was the clear choice to move on from. He brings back three hole-filling depth pieces with mutiple years still left on their contract (RFA with Carter) including a potential OLB successor to Barkavious Mingo and current backup at all LB positions, a G with 41 blocks against 7 sacks allowed in their career, and a reserve DE with 5 sacks in three seasons.

The Giants understood the trade parameters, financial impact, player histories, and what each team hoped to achieve. This trade is now official.