Giants Land Veteran Linebacker Tremaine Edmunds

The New York Giants, exercising patience in waiting for a player they desired, got their man after all, and it didn’t even cost them a draft pick or a player.

Tremaine Edmunds, who was released by the Chicago Bears last week, will be signing a three-year, $36 million contract with the Giants, according to Mike Garafolo of the NFL Network.

Edmunds, who spent the last three seasons with the Bears after initially entering the NFL in 2018 as a first-round draft pick of the Buffalo Bills, who at the time had current Giants general manager Joe Schoen on the staff, is a two-time Pro Bowler, having made back-to-back Pro Bowls in 2019 and 2020.

The 6-foot-4, 251-pound linebacker has started every regular-season game in which he’s played (119) and has 900 regular-season tackles, 43 tackles for loss, 59 pass breakups, and 14 interceptions in regular-season play.

He has been mostly durable throughout his career, though this past season, he suffered a groin injury that landed him on injured reserve from Week 14 onward. He finished the campaign with 61 tackles and four interceptions in 13 games played.

Edmunds was a key figure on defense for the Bears last season, a team that went 11-6 to win the NFC North and made the playoffs. and made the playoffs.

Now with the Giants, he will give Harbaugh and defensive coordinator Dennard Wilson a solid man in the middle of the defense’s second level, a staple of past Harbaugh teams in Baltimore.

How does Edmunds' arrival affect the Giants' draft plans?

Middle linebacker Tremaine Edmunds (49) reacts after sacking New Orleans Saints quarterback Spencer Rattler (not pictured) during the second half at Soldier Field. | David Banks-Imagn Images

Despite Edmunds’s pending arrival, that should not alter the Giants' draft plans if they aspire to select Ohio State’s Sonny Styles with the fifth overall pick in the draft, if Styles falls to them.

If Styles doesn’t fall to the Giants–the Jets are believed to be the biggest threat to the Giants’ having a chance of getting Styles–they could also look at Ohio State safety Caleb Downs at pick five.

What Edmunds’ arrival could also mean is that the team will not be pursuing a reunion with Micah McFadden.

McFadden, whom the Giants drafted in the fifth round back in 2022 out of Indiana, was a two-year starter for the Giants and an integral part of the run defense.

He is reportedly drawing some interest from other teams around the league, including the Jets, despite coming off a season-ending Lisfranc injury suffered in Week 1 of the 2025 campaign.

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