It has been a long, winding, and often disappointing, road with the New York for Darius Slayton since he joined the team in 2019.

A fifth-round pick in that 2019 NFL Draft, Slayton has had to earn the respect of three different head coaches. He has had productive seasons and poor ones. He has dealt with far too much losing. He had to take a pay cut to stay with the team a couple of years ago.

Still, with an opportunity to go elsewhere in free agency this past offseason, Slayton chose to return to the Giants for a seventh season, and hopefully more, signing a three-year, $36 million contract.

Slayton, 28, and Dexter Lawrence are now the longest-tenured Giants. That makes Slayton a core player, a veteran with a wide array of experiences and knowledge of life as a Giant that his younger, l

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