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New York Giants land OLB Ryan Anderson, everything you need to know

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Another Alabama product, what a surprise! The New York Giants signed outside linebacker Ryan Anderson on Tuesday morning, plucking him as a free agent formally of the Washington Football Team. Anderson has played his entire career in Washington since 2017, playing in just nine games last year behind a stacked defensive front.

However, with support needed at OLB, the Giants need to add a bit of competition for training camp. Anderson is capable of being a solid rotational player, and with Lorenzo Carter and Oshane Ximines expected to make a return in 2021, it is gearing up to be a competitive off-season.

What does Ryan Anderson bring to the New York Giants?

Anderson has a few nice traits, including a refined ability to strip the football. In 2019, Anderson started in four games and played in all 16, recording five forced fumbles and 4.0 sacks. He added 44 combined tackles, nine QB hits, and four tackles for loss. During that season, he also recorded a 6.4% missed tackle rate and 19 pressure on the quarterback.

 

What I like the most about Anderson is his ability to create turnovers, using a nice punching fundamental to dislodge the football from opposing ballcarriers. He seems to be Johnny on the spot, and the Giants are essentially replacing Kyler Fackrell with Anderson, a player who has proved to be healthy and can produce in some capacities.

Anderson is another player who will earn the veteran’s salary benefit, so his cap hit should be just about $987.5K. That will include $137.5K and guaranteed money.

The Giants are making a few solid depth moves with low salary hits, which will ultimately benefit them tremendously this upcoming season. With a market flush with talent and not much money to go around, Big Blue is using a majority of their 2022 cap space to fit these big contracts in.

Anderson will probably serve a one-year deal, but if he performs well, he could always stick with the Giants moving forward. I like the signing, as he provides competition to a position of weakness, and the Giants still have the draft to address it if need be.

Brooklyn Nets: Why Ryan Anderson would fit in perfect with the Nets

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Should the Brooklyn Nets bring back Ryan Anderson?

Brooklyn Nets free agency fun, part 4 – Ryan Anderson edition

Well, it’s the off-season. The Finals are a thing of the increasingly distant past, the NBA Draft is right on its heels, and every major player has pretty much left the free agency boards. Things are more or less set in stone with just a few loose ends needing to tied.

So with this series, I’m going to just throw out some names that remain out there in the Free Agency Pool. I don’t truly believe that Sean Marks and the Brooklyn Nets brass are looking at these players, but these are players I wouldn’t mind the organization taking a chance on.

Now keeping this in mind, maybe it’s time for Ryan Anderson to come home. The Brooklyn Nets drafted Anderson back in 2008 with the 21st overall pick. From that moment, he has bounced around the league proving his talents as a stretch big. Although he’s hit a rough patch, maybe some home cooking is what would get him back on the right track.

As a professional, Ryan fits right in with the culture that has been established. He’d be a happy sight for the New Jersey faithful, albeit he only had a one-season stay with the organization. Although Ryan has never been sought after for his defense, he probably would give the Nets their only legitimate power forward.

At 6’10” and 240lbs, Anderson has the body of an actual 4 versus being a small forward that can play the position. He can also play some small forward (but it isn’t needed) and some center. His 3pt acumen will give Coach Kenny Atkinson yet another player who can stretch the floor. At a career 38% clip from beyond, Ryan is a proven shooter, hitting 40% of his 3s every season in which he attempted at least seven 3s a game.

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In Kenny’s system which relies heavily on the 3 ball, Ryan would fit perfectly. He’d be a great player to stand out for the kick out when defenses collapse off penetration or a plausible person to take advantage of a pick and pop scenario. As stated earlier, Ryan Anderson hit a rough patch as far as his shooting goes, but you can almost guarantee him bouncing back under Kenny  Atkinson and the Nets development staff.