With NFL training camps approaching or starting all around the league, the last thing teams who made huge strides last season want is for there to be lingering issues with their best players. And the New York Giants can only sit back and grab some popcorn to watch what's unfolding between the Washington Commanders and their star wide receiver Terry McLaurin.
McLaurin is frustrated by his lack of a new contract right now. It's all fun and games until teams draw hard lines in the sand with players wanting to be appropriately compensated. And McLaurin is essential for the Commanders doing anything that even resembles duplicating what we saw from them last season.
Any drama or friction that remains unresolved between McLaurin and the Commanders can work to the advantage of the New York Giants, who are trying to reestablish themselves as a playoff team in the NFC East heading into the 2025 season.
Giants rivals walking into training camp disaster thanks to Terry McLaurin
If contract negotiations are bad enough behind the scenes that McLauring is publicly calling out the team, then it's possible this ordeal could linger throughout training camp or even longer.
Terry McLaurin- I’m pretty frustrated, not going to lie pic.twitter.com/YdCdP9d6Dk
— JP Finlay (@JPFinlayNBCS) July 15, 2025
The Giants have their own business to take care of, obviously, but a situation like this could be exactly the crack in the door this team needs to make some headway in the NFC East.
McLaurin is entering the last year of his deal with the Commanders and shockingly is already going to be turning 30 years old in September. And that, frankly, could be the source of the contention between the two sides. The Commanders might view McLaurin as being on the back end of his most productive years in the league, while McLaurin is viewing this as his last real shot at getting a massive contract.
It's a classic standoff that NFL teams have to deal with all the time, and this is typically the type of situation that ends with a player being traded. Not that the Commanders are going to do that in year two of the Jayden Daniels era, but McLaurin wants to get paid and at this point, the Commanders have shown that they don't want to pay him.
Things can change in the blink of an eye with these types of negotiations, so nobody needs to get their hopes up that McLaurin won't play this season or anything like that, but it 's possible that the longer this lingers on, the less likely McLaurin is to remain in Washington for the long haul.
And that obviously benefits the Giants tremendously.
The Commanders put everyone in the NFC on notice last year with their rapid ascent into the NFC Championship Game. But as with any team that experiences success, the downside of winning is exactly what the Commanders are experiencing now.