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EAST RUTHERFORD Ryan Connelly Jersey Boys , N.J. (AP) — The New York Giants have waived former first-round draft pick Ereck Flowers and signed tackle Brian Mihalik off their practice squad to replace him.The team announced the moves Tuesday, a day after coach Pat Shurmur said Flowers would either be traded or waived within 24 hours.Flowers was the ninth pick overall in the 2015 draft. He never lived up to expectations. The Miami product was moved from left to right tackle this season after free agent Nate Solder was signed. He ended up losing that job to Chad Wheeler after two games.The Giants, who face the Philadelphia Eagles on Thursday night, also signed kicker Marshall Koehn to their practice squad. Placekicker Aldrick Rosas has a sore quad and his status for Thursday is uncertain.Shurmur said Tuesday that Rosas’ injury is improving.Mihalik played in 15 games for the Detroit Lions in 2017 Infant Ryan Connelly Jersey , starting twice. He has been on the Giants practice squad since Sept. 13.Koehn was with the Giants from Jan. 1 until his release on Sept. 1. He has played in one NFL game, for Cincinnati at Jacksonville on Nov. 5. He made his only extra point attempt, and had one touchback on two kickoffs. The Giants came close to trading receiver Odell Beckham Jr. last year. And then they didn’t trade him.So what happened? As Chris Simms explained on Monday’s , New England’s interest in Beckham ultimately caused the Giants to think twice. Basically Ryan Connelly Jersey Draft , if the Patriots saw something in Beckham that would have caused them to give up significant trade compensation and to cough up a significant second contract even though he’d never previously played for the Patriots, the Giants should be more inclined to keep him around.The fears may have been well founded. Although the Patriots haven’t had a solid track record of drafting receivers, they’ve found some of their best receivers in the Belichick-Brady era by trading for veterans like Randy Moss, Wes Welker Ryan Connelly NFL Jersey , Brandin Cooks, and Chris Hogan. So if the Patriots were willing to pull the trigger on a Beckham trade, the Patriots truly believed that Beckham would have become a major difference-maker.Whether he would have been a major difference-maker is a different question. It takes a certain kind of personality to accept ; former NFL receiver Chad Johnson was required to check his personality at the door when traded by the Bengals in 2011 — and he promptly struggled during his short time in New England. Beckham quite possibly would have had the same experience.The Patriots apparently were banking on Beckham thriving, with coach Bill Belichick Ryan Connelly NFL Draft , offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels, and quarterback Tom Brady providing the kind of structure, support, and (ultimately) success that would have kept Beckham from engaging in periodic outbursts fundamentally fueled by a burning desire to win.Regardless Ryan Connelly Buffalo Bills Jersey , New England’s interest was enough to get the Giants to trade Beckham to no one last year. Whether that could change this year will be the subject of an upcoming blurb.