Proposed Bears’ draft day trade with Giants could’ve changed everything for Rome Odunze

Proposed Bears’ draft day trade with Giants could’ve changed everything for Rome Odunze originally appeared on NBC Sports Chicago

On the newest episode of the Giants’ offseason version of “Hard Knocks,” GM Joe Schoen presented his plan for the 2024 NFL Draft to his counterparts in the front office.

The plan focused on who the Giants could draft with the No. 6 pick, before turning to alternative options. They were first curious to see if either the Commanders or Patriots would be willing to trade out of the second or third pick, respectively, so they could draft one of the quarterbacks Jayden Daniels or Drake Maye.

That proved unlikely from the get-go. The Giants then shifted their focus to wide receivers; specifically, Marvin Harrison Jr. and Malik Nabers. If either of them were available to them with the No. 6 pick, they would stay and select whoever is available.

If not, the Giants were geared to move to alternative options. Those alternative options included trade ideas Schoen spitballed with other teams around the same draft pick as them.

And the Bears had a trade idea in place with the Giants in case New York didn’t get who they wanted with No. 6.

“If those guys go No. 4 and 5 (Marvin Harrison Jr. and Malik Nabers), Rome [Odunze] is there. We like Rome,” Schoen said. “We’re all fans of Rome. Chicago has been in contact with me. They’re at 9 and looking to come up to 6. They have a third and a fourth round pick and then we would give them back a fifth. If Chicago calls me and tells me they’re coming up for a tackle, let’s say it’s Joe Alt, we move back to nine, they go tackle.”

The #Giants had a deal in place with Chicago if Marvin Harrison Jr and Malik Nabers were gone by pick 6 in the NFL Draft. Swapping 6 and 9 getting the #Bears 3rd and 4th, sending back a 5th. NY thought Chicago wanted T Joe Alt. pic.twitter.com/RpYfK845gW

— Ben Devine (@Chicago_NFL) July 24, 2024

The latter of the Giants’ plan in a trade-down scenario was to snag Odunze with the No. 9 pick….

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Publish date : 2024-07-24 17:51:08

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