Could the Giants soon have another experienced TE1 in the room?
Per Art Stapleton of the Bergen Record, the Giants had tight end Eric Ebron in for a visit on Monday, one day before veterans are scheduled to report to training camp, and also hosted offensive tackle Kendall Lamm as part of that group.
Ebron, 29, was born in New Jersey, but went to high school in both Rhode Island and North Carolina. He spent the last two seasons with the Steelers; he had a strong 2020, catching 56 balls for 558 yards and five touchdowns, but he had just 12 grabs for 84 yards and one score (as well as one rush for one yard and a TD) in eight games in a 2021 season he ended on injured reserve.
The eight-year vet has 351 catches for 3,837 yards and 33 TD in his career, with his best year coming in 2018, when he had 66 catches for 750 yards and 13 TD for the Colts.
Stapleton didn’t believe the workout was a function of fourth-round pick Daniel Bellinger starting camp on the PUP list, but more a factor that the team doesn’t have a lot of guaranteed money tied up in their TE group, which currently contains Ricky Seals-Jones, Jordan Akins, and the re-signed Chris Myarick.
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“The closer we get to training camp and into the preseason, the more likely current free agents drop asking price and go for prove-it, one-year deals with a team that offers the best opportunity on the depth chart. That's the market the Giants are in,” Stapleton tweeted.
That may also go for Lamm, a former Brown, Texan, and Titan who has started 28 of 86 games and has played both tackle spots in his seven-year career. Lamm was released by Tennessee earlier this year just one year into a two-year deal, but the Giants waived Korey Cunningham with a Non-Football Injury designation recently, so a swing tackle like Lamm might be a camp flier for the team.
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