The Giants have informed veteran Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie that he will be released, the Daily News has confirmed.
The move saves the Giants $6.5 million against the salary cap, upping their available space to around $26.5 million entering the free agency negotiation period on Monday, following the recent trade for Rams linebacker Alec Ogletree and Saturday’s release of punter Brad Wing.
It also sends the Giants unquestionably into the free agent/draft markets for corner depth and perhaps for starters, too, depending on how they proceed with Janoris Jenkins and Eli Apple. Ross Cockrell is a Giants free agent DB who came on strong as a starter late last season that the club should re-sign.
ESPN first reported Rodgers-Cromartie’s imminent release. The veteran corner posted on Instagram late Sunday morning confirming the move.
The Giants have released Domonique Rodgers-Cromartie.
(Michael Ainsworth/AP)“One a giant always a giants right,” he typed with a smiley face wearing sunglasses, below a photo of himself warming up on the MetLife Stadium field before a past Giants game. “Thanks for everything, Ima miss my dogs but y’all knw me, SEE BALL GET BALL!!!”
Rodgers-Cromartie, who turns 32 on April 7, has been a versatile playmaker and popular player the past four seasons in New York. But he was due to count $8.5 million against the Giants’ cap this upcoming 2018 season, and the Giants, the Daily News has confirmed, asked him to take a pay cut too significant for a player of his talent.
NFL Network first reported the Giants’ request of a pay cut to keep Rodgers-Cromartie in blue.
Rodgers-Cromartie last season was suspended in Week 6 for walking out on then-coach Ben McAdoo after being told he’d be inactive for that weekend’s game in Denver, with the team at 0-5.
Rodgers-Cromartie allegedly had broken some team rules late the previous week in practice, before arguing with McAdoo on the sideline over playing time that Sunday in a home game against the Chargers.
But Rodgers-Cromartie later told ESPN that McAdoo’s explanation to him was “BS”, and his frustrations reportedly centered on the coach’s mid-stream and selective changes in rule enforcement. Players such as Odell Beckham Jr. and Ereck Flowers had not been similarly disciplined for more serious transgressions the previous year and a half.
Rodgers-Cromartie was the first of three Giants defensive backs ultimately suspended during the season, including Janoris Jenkins and Eli Apple, and new Giants GM Dave Gettleman is determined to restore a healthy culture.
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