The deadline for OLB Markus Golden to be able to sign a free-agent contract with teams other than the New York Giants has officially passed as of 4 PM on Wednesday:
Today's 4 p.m. deadline has come and gone – and Markus Golden's rights have returned back to the Giants. pic.twitter.com/FVHqOfffMI
— GiantsWFAN (@giantswfan) July 22, 2020
The calculated risk they took when they placed the rarely used unrestricted free agent tender on Golden back in April has come much closer to paying off. The fact that Golden has remained unsigned past the deadline means that if he wants to play at all this season it can only be with the Giants.