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New York Giants Free Agency Spending Leaves Team Near Bottom in Cap Space

Originally posted on New York Giants on SI
By Patricia Traina | Last updated Mar 18, 2026 4:00 PM ET

The New York Giants have certainly been busy in free agency this offseason, seeking to address areas where they were lacking or needed an upgrade.

And although the Giants haven’t handed out any ultra-big-money contracts–the largest deals they’ve entered into are with linebacker Tremaine Edmunds and tight end Isaiah Likely–they still, as of Wednesday afternoon, find themselves with the third-lowest cap amount in the league ($5.41 million) according to a post by SI’s Albert Breer.

That revelation comes as no surprise, as the Giants have, since the start of free agency:

Signed all three of their exclusive rights free agents at just over $1 million a piece
Re-signed two restricted free agents of their four free agents
Added eight unrestricted free agents from other teams
Re-signed eight of their own unrestricted free agents
Signed three free agents who were cut at the start of the new league year by other teams.

To make all these signings work, the Giants restructured outside linebacker Brian Burns’s contract to open up $15.1 million in cap space, most of which has already been gobbled up by the additional depth signings made by the team.

But there are still other moves the Giants, who as of right now need just north of $10 million to sign their seven-member draft class and then another $10-$12 million of operating funds to get through the upcoming season, can make to open up more cap space.

One obvious move is to cut kicker Graham Gano once he passes a physical, as doing so would save the team $4.5 million in cap space.

The Giants could also look to execute a simple restructure on left tackle Andrew Thomas’s deal, as after this year, he has no more guaranteed money owed to him and has a relatively low prorated cap hit ($6.881 million in 2027, $3.881 in 2028, and $3.046 million in 2028) for the remaining life of his deal.

Dexter Lawrence, who currently has the team’s biggest cap hit at $36.958 million, is certainly a candidate for a restructure as well.

Lawrence’s guaranteed money has been paid out, so perhaps the Giants could convert most of his $18.5 million P5 salary in 2026 to a signing bonus and add on a couple of years to help balance out the cap hits the rest of the way.

It's important to note that cap space this time of year is fluid. It was also unclear if the figures Breer reported have accounted for all the transactions made by the Giants since the start of free agency.

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