Giants Sign Chris Canty

by John Morgan on Mar 1, 2009 2:14 PM PST

The Giants have signed soon to be defensive tackle Chris Canty to a 6 year, 42 million dollar contract with 17.25 million guaranteed. Expensive for sure, but consider.

Chris Canty is 26. He turned 26 a day after week 10 of the NFL season. That means for practical purposes, 2008 was Canty's age 25 season and 2009 is Canty's age 26 season. New York is guaranteed three to five seasons of Canty in his absolute athletic prime.

Canty was considered a first round talent with major durability issues. He suffered a detached retina after being hit by a bottle in a bar fight. Canty claimed to be a bystander and given his rock solid character profile, it's fair to say he was and that Canty comes with no Plaxico Burress/Ken Hamlin nightlife red flags. Canty also suffered a whopper of a knee injury, tearing his ACL, MCL and PCL. Injuries like that can damage cartilage and effectively end a career. That was four years and fifty consecutive starts ago.

I wouldn't support Seattle making this move, but the difference between signing Canty and Colin Cole is the difference between overpaying a non-marquee player entering his prime and overpaying a replacement level player exiting it.

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Someone is making a late run, but I think this signing is nearly done.

by John Morgan on Mar 1, 2009 2:23 PM PST reply actions

Haynesworth signs for a stupid 100 million

Canty goes for 6 years 42 million. Cole is making half that and less than a third of the guaranteed money. Maybe the market is just retarded for defensive tackles?

by Nate Dogg on Mar 1, 2009 2:23 PM PST reply actions

Meh.

I like Canty but I don’t think he would have been effective here.

"Part, fools!
Put up your swords. You know not what you do."

by Fearless Frog on Mar 1, 2009 2:26 PM PST reply actions

I hate the Cole signing

But I would also hate to see Canty getting 42 million from our team, because that would almost completely eliminate the possibility of drafting a good DT in the 2nd or 3rd round. With Cole, a guy that was regarded as a backup in GB, the Seahawks should still have DT somewhere on their list of priorities come draft day.

If the Seahawks draft a guy like Hood, then we can always hope for a Darby/Mebane scenario where the young guy comes in and displaces the favored veteran.

And as much as I dislike this move, if it comes coupled with a Housh signing (assuming its ~3/27 or so), all is forgiven. It would not be possible to get Housh had the team signed Canty instead.

by kearly on Mar 1, 2009 3:33 PM PST reply actions