For the second straight day, the Giants are acquiring a former Big Ten offensive lineman from an AFC North team. Tuesday’s move: trading for Ravens second-year blocker Ben Bredeson, Adam Schefter of ESPN.com tweets.
Even after the Giants acquired Billy Price (Ohio State) from the Bengals, SNY’s Ralph Vacchiano noted the team was searching for more help up front. Big Blue will give Bredeson a shot. The teams will swap picks in this deal, per Schefter (on Twitter). The Ravens will receive a 2022 fourth-round pick for Bredeson and will send a 2022 fifth-rounder and a 2023 seventh to the Giants, Tom Pelissero of NFL.com tweets.
A Michigan product who went in the 2020 fourth round, Bredeson played in 10 games for the Ravens last season. With the Ravens signing ex-Giants guard Kevin Zeitler, their guard group is a bit deeper than it was a season ago. The Giants have struggled up front during training camp and the preseason slate, and they now have a second new interior blocker to help the cause.
Bredeson was a four-year starter at left guard for the Wolverines and should be in line to back up Will Hernandez and Shane Lemieux with the Giants. Three years remain on Bredeson’s rookie contract; Price’s deal runs through 2021.
This marks the third Ravens trade in the past five days. Evidently pleased with its depth, Baltimore sent rookie cornerback Shaun Wade to the Patriots and dealt center Greg Mancz to the Dolphins.
After watching that debacle against the Patriots and knowing this is a make or break it year for Daniel Jones, Gettleman had no choice but to get better players for the OL. While not getting all pros, still better than the depth we had.
Yeah, it was a huge question mark going into the preseason and the OL has answered that question in the negative. You can tell Gettleman is panicking over how bad they’ve looked. Andrew Thomas is looking like another blown pick, too. Mr Hog Mollies has had several years to build a competent OL and instead he’s made it into one of the worst in the league.
Perhaps he should have drafted Oline at some point this year? The 3rd and 4th round had some solid players.
I can’t imagine this guy is any good. They had to trade him along with a 5th and 7th just to get a 4th. The Bengals fans in the thread for the Price trade said Price was terrible; can any Ravens fans confirm that Bredeson is also not good?
He’s mostly still an unknown, but he put in some good preseason snaps… of course preseason snaps also have to be taken w/ a grain of salt
What a disaster
Did you see the Giants OL. How could they be worse than the dreck we had.