New York Giants News: Will Beatty Lost For Season

New York Giants News: Offensive tackle Will Beatty was working his way back from a pectoral tear suffered in March, but the Giants have decided to not activate him off the PUP list because of a rotator cuff injury, ending his season.

The New York Giants offensive line looked like it would be a strength for the team entering the season. Those plans changed when Eli Manning‘s blind side protector, projected left tackle Will Beatty tore his pectoral working out. He has been rehabbing with hopes of returning to the field this season, but he will not be activated off the Physically Unable To Perform list, and will miss the remainder of the season.

Beatty injured his rotator cuff while rehabbing his torn pectoral muscle, and will not see the field for the Giant this season. According to Dan Graziano of ESPN New York, the Giants were using Beatty at different places on the offensive line in practice recently, but were unable to find a spot that he was able to be effective at. So, it was decided that he would remain on the PUP list and miss the rest of the season.

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Tom Coughlin expressed his disappointment in how things turned out, saying, “He’s practiced and worked hard to try to see what he was able to do with it, but it’s just not going to be something that will allow him to be the player that he can be. He was trying to see what he could do with it. He wore a strap and so on and so forth. But it wasn’t enough.”

Beatty had been the starting left tackle for the Giants since 2012, and hadn’t missed a game since taking over as the starter. He has had his struggles at times, but was looking like the one thing you could count on from the offensive line with all the constant shuffling and injuries the unit had suffered in the past couple of seasons.

Not, it seems like Beatty could have played his last snap with Big Blue. He has two years left on his contract on the five-year deal he signed in 2012, which totaled $37.5 million. He is ready to earn $6.625 in 2016 and $6.775 million in 2017, but neither of those years have any guaranteed money attached to them. Neither amount is ridiculous in terms of what the Giants were expecting from Beatty, but by missing a season and his successor in Ereck Flowers already on the roster, he could very well be with another team next season.

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The only way it seems that Beatty will stay on the roster is if he agrees to renegotiate his contract. The Giants can save $4.715 million if they release Beatty this offseason, so if he doesn’t agree to a lower cap number the Giants have a lot of incentive to move on from their former left tackle.

Flowers is entrenched as the left tackle for as long as he is healthy, as he has done nothing to get taken out of that role. But, Beatty would give them good insurance in case Flowers suffered an injury, and he would provide very good depth along the line. This is a win-win situation for the Giants, as Beatty has no guaranteed money on his contract and very little negotating power when it comes to working on his cap number for the next two seasons. Expect Beatty to be back, unless he wants to become a free agent coming off a missed season trying to find a new deal.

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