The Giants’ beefing up of James Bettcher’s linebacking corps has begun.
The Giants’ beefing up of James Bettcher’s linebacking corps has begun.
The Daily News has confirmed that the Giants have acquired Rams linebacker Alec Ogletree and the Rams’ seventh-round pick in a trade that sent the Giants’ compensatory fourth-round pick and their original sixth-round pick back to L.A.
The Giants, therefore, who own the second pick in each round, protected their original fourth-round pick, the 102nd overall pick and second of the fourth-round. And they surrendered instead the fourth round’s 35th pick, and the draft’s 135th overall, a compensatory pick they’d been awarded based on free agents lost and gained last offseason.
Ogletree, 26, entering his sixth NFL season out of Georgia, improves a thin Giants linebacking corps that needs to add speed, athleticism and versatility in Bettcher’s new 3-4, blitz-heavy scheme.
