The saga between the No. 9 overall pick from the 2015 NFL Draft and the New York Giants reached its official conclusion on Tuesday. The team’s official website announced that Big Blue waived the lineman.
For anyone following the team for the past four seasons, that news cannot be considered surprising. In fact, most folks would state that it took too long for Ereck Flowers to be cut.
Those folks obviously don’t pay much attention to the NFL’s salary structure, where first-round draft picks receive four-year guaranteed contracts. If you feel that’s crazy, then take the issue up the next time the league’s collective bargaining agreement gets negotiated.