May 032023
 
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GIANTS MAKE CHANGES TO SCOUTING DEPARTMENT
The New York Giants have made a number of changed to their collegiate scouting and pro personnel scouting departments.

First, the team has parted ways with Steven Price and D.J. Boisture. Price was hired by the previous regime in May 2021 as a pro personnel manager. The new regime demoted him to pro personnel scout a year later. Boisture had served as a college scout for the Giants since 2016 and was the team’s area scout for the western part of the country. Before that he was a pro personnel intern for the team.

Other changes:

  • Marquis Pendleton, who had served as the team’s northeastern area scout for one season, is now a pro scout. Before that, he was the team’s BLESTO college scout for four seasons. Nick La Testa and Corey Lockett remain pro scouts. It appear Pendleton has replaced Steven Price.
  • Marcus Cooper, who had served as the team’s southeast area scout, is now a national scout. Mike Derice and Jeremy Breit remain national scouts for the team. Cooper had been an area scout for the Giants for five seasons.
  • Blaise Bell, who had served as the team’s BLESTO scout for three seasons, is now an area scout. Is is not clear if he is replacing D.J. Boisture in the west, Marquis Pendleton in the northeast, or Marcus Cooper in the southeast. Two area scouting positions remain open.
  • Justin Markus, who had served as a scouting assistant for the Giants, is now the team’s BLESTO college scout.

For an overview of the current positions, see the New York Giants Team Administration section of the website.

Jul 022020
 
New York Giants Helmet (November 24, 2019)

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NEW YORK GIANTS ANNOUNCE CHANGES TO OPERATIONS AND COACHING STAFF…
The New York Giants have announced the following changes to their football operations and coaching staff:

Dr. Lani Lawrence has been hired for the newly-created Director of Wellness and Clinical Services. She will also oversee the team’s Player Engagement/Development Program. Lawrence was previously a clinical and sport psychologist at the University of Southern California as well as serving as a member of the USA Track & Field sport psychology group.

Lawrence has assumed the duties previously held by David Tyree, who for the past six years had served as Director of Player Engagement/Development. The re-structured program will also include Assistant Director Ashley Lynn, Outside Linebackers Coach/Senior Assistant Bret Bielema, Special Teams Coordinator Thomas McGaughey, and Special Assistant Jessie Armstead. This department falls under the umbrella of Senior Vice President of Medical Services Ronnie Barnes.

“When I say player engagement, I literally mean engaging with our players, which is really hard with everything that’s currently going on in the country – the virtual learning, with our athletes not being able to come to the facility,” said Lawrence. “What I was tasked to do was to make our rookies better. But also to make the players better. I’m fortunate that everybody within the organization has those same goals, from ownership to the head coach to the people that I work with in player development.

“My primary role is to not only be a support, but to help players be a better person in general. A whole person, not just a better athlete. If they’re better in their personal lives, if they have better connections with their teammates, with their spouses or people close to them, if they’re living healthy lives, ultimately, the reward is that they’re going to be a better athlete. I get to support the players emotionally, physically and mentally, and my hope is that it translates onto the field.”

Ed Triggs is now the Director of Football Operations. He had served as the team’s Football Operations Coordinator since 2016. Triggs will be responsible for managing the salary cap, assisting in contract negotiations, Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) compliance, and working with the pro scouting, college scouting, coaching, and the data and innovation staffs.

Ty Siam is now the Director of Football Data & Innovation, after serving with the team in other capacities since 2015.

“Football, from a technological perspective, has been moving at a rapid pace to build a data fluidity that can be utilized across multiple groups,” Siam said. “For us, that’s our college and pro scouts, our coaching staff, it’s our strength and conditioning staff and our medical and performance teams. We had gotten to a point where we had such a vast amount of data internally and a number of different audiences were looking at it from various points of view. We thought it was really important to centralize the way we distribute information to all of those groups. That was really the big impetus.

“From a video and data standpoint, how do we get the most meaningful information in front of our decision makers on a regular basis? Sometimes it’s low-hanging fruit, sometimes it’s much more complex with some of the analysis and modeling we’re doing. But if we can effectively get the most appropriate information in front of our decision makers on a regular basis, then I think that’s how we’ll earmark success in this category.”

Courtney Kennedy is now a Football Data Analyst, after serving as an intern with the team in 2019. “I’ve been helping all different football departments,” Kennedy said. “Anything from scouting to the medical team to coaching, a variety of database statistical projects.”

Marquis Pendleton has been shifted from the team’s scout in the BLESTO scouting combine to an area scout. “I’m excited. It’s a new challenge for me,” Pendleton said. “It gives me an opportunity to grow within a different area, see different players, meet different people within the industry and different coaches.”

Blaise Bell is now the new BLESTO scout, after serving as an intern with the team in 2019.

Hannah Burnett has been hired as the new Midlands scout, after serving almost two years with the scouting department of the Atlanta Falcons. Burnett is the franchise’s first full-time female scout.

“I completely understand and am aware that this is an awesome opportunity, and it’s important for females in the league,” said Burnett. “But I’ve said this from the get-go, I just want to be the best area scout that I can. I want to go in there like everyone else goes in there and go about my business like a pro. Everything else will work itself out if I go about my business the right way. For me, that’s my mindset. It’s always been my mindset. I’m just continuing to stay on that course.”

Craig Fitzgerald has been hired as the Director of Strength and Performance. He has served in a similar capacity with Harvard University (2005-2009), University of South Carolina (2009-2011), Penn State University (2012-2013), Houston Texans (2014-2017), and the University of Tennessee (2018-2020).

Sam Coad has been hired as the Performance Manager/Assistant Strength Coach. An Australian, Coad has served in a similar capacity with the University of Michigan (2014-2015), University of Oklahoma (2015-2017), and Texas A&M University (2018-2019).

Nick Williams has been hired as an offensive assistant. He has previously served as wide receivers coach at Jacksonville State University (2014-2016) and Southern Illinois University (2017-2019).

Jun 202018
 
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NEW YORK GIANTS FRONT OFFICE AND SCOUTING CHANGES…
The New York Giants have announced the following personnel changes to their front office and scouting departments:

  • Kevin Abrams, a member of the organization since 1999 and the assistant general manager for the last 16 years, has added the title of vice president of football operations.
  • Mark Koncz, brought in by Gettleman as a consultant prior to the 2018 NFL Draft, is now the director of player personnel. Koncz was a member of the Carolina Panthers organization from 1994-2017 and was their director of pro scouting from 2000-2017. He worked under Gettleman when the latter was the Panthers’ general manager from 2013-2016.
  • Chris Pettit has been named director of college scouting after spending the previous 13 years as an area scout. He joined the Giants’ scouting staff in 2005 after spending the 2004 season as a scouting intern for the team. Pettit first worked for the Giants as a training camp pro personnel intern from 1998-2000.
  • Patrick Hanscomb has been named an area scout whose concentration will be the Mid-Atlantic area. Hanscomb spent the previous 10 seasons in the team’s pro personnel department.
  • Marcus Cooper has been hired as an area scout who will focus in the Southeast. Cooper spent the previous seven seasons with the Buffalo Bills, first as a player personnel assistant, then as an area scout, and last year as the team’s scout in the BLESTO Scouting Combine.

Beginning this season, each area scout will concentrate on a specific region. In addition to Hanscomb and Cooper, the Giants’ area scouts are D.J. Boisture (west), Jeremy Breit (regional), Steve Devine (Midwest), Donnie Etheridge (southwest), Ryan Jones (northeast), Michael Murphy (west), Steve Verderosa (regional), and Chris Watts (midlands). These eight scouts have all served with the Giants for a number of years.

Jeremiah Davis and Marquis Pendleton will continue to serve as executive scout and BLESTO scout, respectively.

“We talk all the time about the importance of working together and communicating effectively and efficiently,” said General Manger Dave Gettleman. “These appointments and promotions are well deserved, and we feel like we are well-positioned to move forward with the group of people we have in player personnel and football operations. All are collaborators and communicators and understand the significance of self-improvement to make the organization the best it can be.”

A complete listing of these positions is available in the New York Giants team administration section of the website.

NY POST Q&A WITH DEFENSIVE COORDINATOR JAMES BETTCHER…
James Bettcher, the blue-collar guy now leading Giants defense by Steve Serby of The New York Post

ARTICLES…

May 062016
 
2016 New York Giants Draft Class (May 6, 2016)

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MAY 6, 2016 NEW YORK GIANTS ROOKIE MINI-CAMP REPORT…
The first day of the New York Giants 2-day rookie mini-camp was held on Friday at Quest Diagnostics Training Center in East Rutherford, New Jersey. Seventy-four (74) players – draft picks, signed rookie free agents, first-year players who have not completed a season of credited service, and street and rookie free agent tryout players – were in attendance.

A sights and sounds video of the players arriving on Thursday is available at Giants.com.

PARTICIPANTS…

2016 NFL Draft Picks (6):

  • CB Eli Apple, Ohio State
  • WR Sterling Shepard, Oklohoma
  • S Darian Thompson, Boise State
  • LB B.J. Goodson, Clemson
  • RB Paul Perkins, UCLA
  • TE Jerell Adams, South Carolina

2016 Signed Rookie Free Agents (14):

  • QB Josh Woodrum, Liberty
  • RB Marshaun Coprich, Illinois State
  • WR K.J. Maye, Minnesota
  • WR Roger Lewis, Bowling Green State
  • WR Darius Powe, California
  • TE Ryan Malleck, Virginia Tech
  • TE Cedrick Lang, UTEP
  • DE Romeo Okwara, Notre Dame
  • DE Mike Rose, North Carolina State
  • DT Melvin Lewis, Kentucky
  • DT Greg Milhouse, Campbell
  • CB Michael Hunter, Oklahoma State
  • CB Donte Deayon, Boise State
  • S Andrew Adams, Connecticut

Contrary to previous reports, wide receiver Michael Esiobu (Lakeland College) and linebacker Graham Stewart (Connecticut) were not signed. Both are present as tryout players.

New York Giants First-Year Players (8):

  • WR Ben Edwards
  • WR Anthony Dablé
  • TE Matt Lacosse
  • OC Sean McDermott
  • OT Jake Rodgers
  • DE Brad Bars
  • LS Tyler Ott
  • PK Tom Obarski

Rookie and Veteran Tryout Players (46):

  • QB Gary Nova, Rutgers
  • QB B.J. Daniels, South Florida
  • QB Vad Lee, James Madison
  • RB Lache Seastrunk, Baylor
  • RB Donald Russell, Georgia State
  • RB Mercer Timmis, Calgary
  • RB Terry Williams, Kutztown
  • FB/TE Desroy Maxwell, Northern Illinois
  • WR Donte Foster, Ohio
  • WR Kadron Boone, LSU
  • WR Quintavius Burdette, Mississippi
  • WR Miles Shuler, Northwestern
  • WR Michael Esiobu, Lakeland
  • WR Doug Corby, Queen’s
  • WR Brett Blaszko, Calgary
  • TE Jake Murphy, Utah
  • OL Dylan Intemann, Wake Forest
  • OL Alex Huettel, Bowling Green
  • OL Jacob Richards, Ball State
  • OL Angelo Mangiro, Penn State
  • OL Brandon Revenberg, Grand Valley
  • OL Charles Vaillancourt, Laval
  • OL Philippe Gagnon, Laval
  • DE Lawrence Sidbury, Richmond
  • DE Ishaq Williams, Notre Dame
  • DT Derrick Lott, Tennessee Chattanooga
  • DT Kamal Johnson, Temple
  • LB Xzavier Dickson, Alabama
  • LB Graham Stewart, Connecticut
  • LB Evan McKelvey, Marshall
  • LB Kassan Messiah, Massachusetts
  • LB Schnayder Termidor, Ithaca
  • LB Brian Brikowski, Monmouth
  • LB Terrell Davis, British Columbia
  • LB D.J. Lalama, Manitoba
  • CB Kevin White, TCU
  • CB Demarr Aultman, Maine
  • CB Matt Smalley, Lafayette
  • CB Darius Knight, Nicholls State
  • CB Lamar Edmonds, New Hampshire
  • S Keenan Lambert, Norfolk State
  • S Hakim Jones, North Carolina State
  • S Xavier Walker, Middle Tennessee State
  • S Quay Watt, Middle Tennessee State
  • S Taylor Loeffler, British Columbia
  • P/K Quinn Van Gylswyk, British Columbia

GIANTS SIGN FOUR OF THEIR DRAFT PICKS
The New York Giants have announced they have signed the following four of their 2016 NFL Draft class:

  • CB Eli Apple – 1st round
  • WR Sterling Shepard – 2nd round
  • RB Paul Perkins – 5th round
  • TE Jerell Adams – 6th round

The only remaining draft picks unsigned are safety Darian Thompson (3rd round) and linebacker B.J. Goodson (4th round).

SCOUTING DEPARTMENT CHANGES
The New York Giants have promoted Chris Watts from BLESTO scout, a role that he has served in for eight years, to scout. To replace Watts, the Giants have promoted Marquis Pendleton to the position. Pendleton had served as an intern in the team’s pro personnel department.

BEN MCADOO AND THE COORDINATORS SPEAK…
Transcripts and video clips of the media sessions with the following coaches are available in The Corner Forum and at Giants.com:

THE PLAYERS SPEAK…
Transcripts and video clips of the media sessions with the following players are available in The Corner Forum and at Giants.com:

ARTICLES…