A team source tells Josina Anderson of ESPN that it’s unlikely CB Eli Apple will be back in New York next year after all that has transpired with him this season.
“He will not be in an NYG uniform next year,” Anderson’s source said. “Dude is done with NYG. Done.”
The Giants announced Wednesday that they’ve suspended Apple for the final week of the 2017 season, citing conduct detrimental to the team.
Mike Florio of Pro Football Talk points out that this suspension wipes out Apple’s remaining guaranteed compensation for the 2018 and 2019 season, which means the Giants can cut him and not owe him anything.
It’s possible the Giants could attempt to trade him at the start of the 2018 league year, as opposed to releasing him, but it sounds like he’ll probably be playing elsewhere next season.
Apple, 22, is a former first-round pick of the Giants back in 2016. He’s currently in the second year of his four-year, $15.152 million contract and stands to make base salaries of $1.82 million and $2.51 million over the final two years of the agreement.
The contract also includes a fifth-year option for the Giants to pick up in 2019.
In 2017, Apple appeared in 11 games and recorded 49 tackles, no interceptions, two fumble recoveries and eight pass defenses.
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