When you’ve won just 12 games in three years and are still in the midst of a rebuild, you can’t push all of your chips to one side of the table. That was exactly the situation the New York Giants were in this offseason. They needed to be careful with their money and divvy up the cash between a number of players they felt could really help the organization grow in 2020 and potentially beyond.
One of the spots in which they put this mentality to use was at inside linebacker. The Giants weren’t in the position to sign a star, so they had to acquire someone who was at least a step above Alec Ogletree.