The Giants were mocked for acquiring Leonard Williams in a 2019 midseason trade with the Jets. Who’s laughing now?
The Jets used the 2020 third-round pick they got in the Williams trade to draft safety Ashtyn Davis, who’s never developed into anything more than a special teams player and a rotational backup on defense, and looks like he may be struggling to even make the roster this summer.The conditional pick the Jets got from the trade was used to draft cornerback Michael Carter II with the 154th-overall pick in 2021. Carter has been a backup and occasional nickel back.
Nunez-Roches is in his ninth NFL season and first with the Giants, having been signed this past offseason after five years with the Buccaneers — which included a 2021 Super Bowl run. He had only seen Williams from afar, and he admired what he saw.Williams certainly does look the part at 6-foot-5, 300 pounds. And surely that, along with how high he was drafted, was used to knock his performance down as not good enough early in his career.
Nunez-Roches was signed in March to a three-year deal worth $12 million, with $7.5 guaranteed — which is $37.5 million less in guaranteed money than Williams got. And he has no gripes about it. Williams on Tuesday sounded like a player who has a score to settle with 2022, when he missed five games, first with a knee injury and later with a neck strain. His 114 consecutive-game streak was snapped in Week 3 with the knee injury.USA TODAY Sports via Reuters Con
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