The New York Giants have somehow made it through the first five weeks of the 2026 season sitting at 3-1-1 and alone atop the NFC East. Not bad for a team that’s already lost its starting quarterback and best pass rusher for the year.
After a slog-fest against the Washington Commanders in Landover, Md., last Sunday, Big Blue heads back to MetLife Stadium in Week 6 to host the 1-4 New Orleans Saints on Sunday. A win would move the G-Men to 4-1-1 and give them a little more breathing room atop arguably the weakest division in football.
With the Nov. 10 trade deadline approaching, here are five players I’d be willing to move for the right price.
5 Giants players who could be on the move before the trade deadline
Theo Johnson, TE
The thought of Theo Johnson teaming up with Isaiah Likely to form the league’s most dynamic tight end room is more enticing to me than you’ll ever know, which is why including him on this list hurts. I am a Theo truther, and I believe guys with his size (6-foot-6, 260 pounds), athleticism (9.93 out of 10.00 RAS score, ranking ninth out of 1,199 tight ends evaluated from 1987 to 2024), and youth (25 years old) will eventually figure it out.
But I also believe he’s one of the few underutilized players on the roster who could actually fetch a return worth making a move for. It’s clear the tight end room is Likely’s to lose, and he’s been incredible through five games, leaving Johnson with the scraps.
He’s done a decent job with his limited opportunities (four receptions, 55 yards, and a touchdown), but the offense doesn’t have room for No. 84 the way it did when Jaxson Dart was under center, and Likely wasn’t getting double-digit targets every Sunday.
This is a tight end league, and offenses are always looking to exploit mismatches. The former Penn State standout could be one of the biggest, but he might have to go elsewhere to flourish. Drops have been a problem, but a couple of dates with the JUGS machine could work that out in no time.
Devin Singletary, RB
This was ultimately a choice between Singletary and Tyrone Tracy Jr. As you can probably tell, Singletary was the odd man out.
I know TTJ has had his fumble struggles, but so have Najee Harris and Cam Skattebo. The whole room has ball-security issues. So why continue ignoring the most elusive and biggest home-run threat option out of the backfield?
The third-year back is still playing out his rookie deal, with one season left in 2027, so I’d personally like to see him get an increased role down the stretch to help keep this team in contention in the NFC East.
Back to Singletary. It’s not that he’s bad. It’s just that he isn’t all that useful. There isn’t anything he brings that the team doesn’t already have with Skatt, Harris, and Tracy. He isn’t particularly big, fast, or powerful, and he isn’t especially efficient in space. And seeing as though he’s a luxury as RB4 in North Jersey, a team looking for backfield depth could come calling with a late Day 3 pick. I’d have a hard time saying no.
Micah McFadden, LB
What exactly is Micah McFadden’s role on this team? He’s a proven tackler when healthy and could be a starter on a handful of teams. It’s understandable why Harbs is keeping him on the sideline, considering the health and depth issues that have plagued this team in the past, but it’s a new dawn; it’s a new day, baybay.
Arvell Reese and Tremaine Edmunds have taken over the starting jobs, and neither looks particularly interested in giving their spot back. McFadden is too good to spend the entire season watching from the sideline, and if a linebacker-needy team is willing to give up a draft pick for someone with 36 starts and 273 tackles, the Giants should absolutely listen.
John Michael Schmitz, C
It took three years and three games, but John Michael Schmitz is finally no longer the starting center for the New York Football Giants. After never looking like the best center prospect coming out of Minnesota in the 2023 Draft, consider his demotion to Bryan Hudson the first step in his journey post-Big Blue.
Schmitz has been one of the league’s worst centers since entering the NFL, and his 45.7 overall PFF grade through three games this season (33rd out of 34 qualified centers) hasn’t exactly helped his case.
Hudson has played infinitely better since taking over, and with JMS playing out the final year of his rookie deal, why not see if another team is willing to part with a late-round pick before he potentially walks for nothing?
Kayvon Thibodeaux, EDGE
You could argue that Big Blue might be better off releasing him outright and putting the Kayvon Thibodeaux experiment to bed once and for all, but I think that’s shortsighted. And I also think they’d leave a potential return on the table.
Thibs’ disastrous 2026 season won’t help his trade value, but teams will always value young, high-draft-profile guys at premier positions who’ve at least shown flashes in their careers. New Orleans reportedly offered a fourth-rounder for him back in April, and while the G-Men were holding out for a second-rounder, five games without a sack and one solo tackle have made that asking price look borderline criminal.
With Burns out for the season and Golston on IR, moving Thibs would leave the pass rush even thinner. But if another team is willing to give New York anything worthwhile before the Nov. 10 deadline, like Schmitz, I’d take the call rather than risk losing him for nothing after the season.
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