Giants sign DL Jordon Riley to rookie contract


Defensive lineman Jordon Riley runs during Oregon Pro Day at the Moshofsky Center Tuesday March 14, 2023.

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Defensive lineman Jordon Riley runs throughout Oregon Professional Day on the Moshofsky Heart Tuesday March 14, 2023. Eug 031423 Professional Day 03
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Defensive lineman Jordon Riley signed his rookie contract with the New York Giants, the group introduced Saturday throughout the second and closing day of its rookie camp in East Rutherford, N.J

Riley was a seventh-round choose final weekend within the NFL draft.

After stints at North Carolina, Backyard Metropolis Group School and Nebraska, Riley landed at Oregon in 2022. He performed 13 video games that season for the Geese, ending with 21 tackles (seven solo), 1.5 tackles for loss, a half-sack and one go defensed.

“Jordon Riley, once more, large physique man. It is laborious to search out these guys,” Giants normal supervisor Joe Schoen stated

“You stroll out to follow and there is this 6-5, 330-pound man, who piques your curiosity proper there. Once more, a few of these guys in numerous schemes might not have the manufacturing, the tackles, the sacks. However for what (coach) Wink (Martindale) appears to be like for by way of measurement, size, knock again, he possesses these traits.”

Riley is the fourth rookie from this yr’s draft class to decide to a contract. Operating again Eric Grey, defensive again Gervarrius Owens and cornerback Tre Hawkins III signed their rookie contracts Friday.

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