Giants’ Brown, McGaughey to attend NFL diversity seminar for head coach, GM candidates
Giants assistant GM Brandon Brown and special teams coordinator Thomas McGaughey will attend an NFL diversity seminar in Atlanta on Monday as a networking opportunity for minority GM and head coaching candidates, according to a source.
Monday’s seminar is one league effort to improve an insufficient diversity track record. The seminar will give candidates a chance to network and interact with NFL team owners ahead Tuesday’s regularly scheduled one-day spring owners’ meeting.
Brown, 33, is on the rise in his first year as Giants assistant GM after spending the five previous years with the Philadelphia Eagles. He was director of player personnel in 2021.
McGaughey, 49, is a respected veteran coordinator of six NFL franchises. He is entering his fifth straight season with the Giants in his second stint with the organization.
The seminar’s launch was first reported by The Washington Post.
SCHOEN SHUFFLING THE DECK
The Giants reshuffled the bottom of their roster on Wednesday with four signings and corresponding cuts. They signed defensive end Jalyn Holmes, safety Henry Black, and corners Maurice Canady and Khalil Dorsey.
They cut quarterback Brian Lewerke, outside linebacker Trent Harris, defensive end Raymond Johnson III and defensive back Jordan Mosley (waived/injured).
Lewerke’s release leaves the Giants with only three quarterbacks on their roster: Daniel Jones, Tyrod Taylor and Davis Webb.
Holmes, 26, who played 189 defensive snaps (35%) for the New Orleans Saints last season, knows Giants defensive line coach Andre Patterson from their time together in Minnesota.
Black, 25, is a former Green Bay Packer who played a lot of special teams in 2021. He logged 262 defensive snaps (24%), mostly in the slot or the box.
Canady, 27, and Dorsey, 24, are both former Baltimore Ravens who played under Giants defensive coordinator Don “Wink” Martindale. Both spent time on injured reserve last season.
Canady, a 2020 opt-out, has been on three teams in the last four years: the Ravens, Jets and Cowboys. He’s a special teamer with four starts in 40 career games. He’s played 366 snaps in the slot and 364 at outside, per Pro Football Focus, with spot usage near the line of scrimmage.
Dorsey has played only four NFL snaps at corner, all in the slot as a rookie, per PFF. He spent all of last season on IR.
Mosley (Maryland) was one of two rookie minicamp tryouts to sign with the Giants a few days ago, along with DE Ryder Anderson (Indiana). The team also signed six draft picks coming out of that minicamp: first-rounders Evan Neal and Kayvon Thibodeux, fifth-rounders LB Micah McFadden, DT D.J. Davidson and Marcus McKethan, and sixth-round pick Darrian Beavers.
QB SKIPS GIANTS TRYOUT FOR CFL
Lewerke got the Giants through rookie minicamp, only to get waived four days later. The Michigan State product was the quarterback on the field last weekend.
The team had planned to bring Canadian QB Tre Ford in as a tryout, as reported by Football Gameplan’s Emory Hunt. But Ford chose to report to the Edmonton Elks’ CFL training camp instead.
Ford, 24, told the Edmonton Sun that “the Giants … wanted me to kind of play … an athlete position, too, so maybe a little running back/receiver type of thing. And I was definitely interested in pursuing my career as a quarterback.”
He’d already been to the Baltimore Ravens’ camp the week prior, too. And as the Elks’ 2022 first-round pick in the CFL draft, he decided to show up in Alberta with a chance to compete at his preferred position.
OTAs UNDERWAY
The Giants have 10 voluntary, full-team OTA practices through June 3 prior to their mandatory minicamp that runs June 7-9. Their first two OTAs on Monday and Tuesday were closed to the media. Thursday’s will be open. The rest of the OTAs will be on May 23, 24, 26 (open) and 31, and June 1, 2 (open) and 3.
