The Giants needed some new cornerbacks and found a Newsome on the second day of NFL free agency.
With Cor’Dale Flott leaving for the Titans and other Plan Bs not coming to fruition, the Giants pivoted Tuesday to agree to terms with former first-round pick Greg Newsome II, The Post confirmed.
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The one-year deal is worth up to $10 million, according to ESPN.
Newsome started 16 games last season between the Browns and Jaguars.
He was part of a midseason cornerback swap that saw Tyson Campbell headed in the other direction.
Newsome, 25, has four interceptions in 71 career games, including 58 starts.
The Giants were confident Monday morning about being able to re-sign Flott, but the Titans pushed his market to a level (three years, $45 million) that exceeded his in-house value.
Greg Newsome with the Jaguars last season. Getty Images Flott was one of three members of the 2022 Giants draft class — the first for general manager Joe Schoen and then-head coach Brian Daboll (now the Titans offensive coordinator) — to relocate to Tennessee.
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That meant waking up Tuesday with former first-round pick Deonte Banks — who is going to have to win over head coach John Harbaugh by showing better effort than he did under Daboll — penciled in as a starter opposite Paulson Adebo. That was not going to work.
Newsome, a Northwestern product, originally was the No. 26 pick in the 2021 draft — six spots after the Giants selected receiver Kadarius Toney.
