BJ Goodson was a casualty of the Giants’ trade for former Georgia standout middle linebacker Alec Ogletree last summer.
At the time, New York played a 4-3 scheme with Goodson in the center. But when the Giants hired Pat Shurmur to become their next head coach, he hired James Bettcher as his new defensive coordinator who installed the 3-4 defense. Last season, Goodson and Ogletree manned the middle.
Then the Giants drafted linebackers Ryan Connelly and Lorenzo Carter in consecutive NFL college drafts to which Goodson was demoted in this year’s training camp.
Goodson was a fourth-round pick of the Giants in the 2016 draft to help mostly on special teams.