Safety Jabrill Peppers is excited about last week’s trade that sent him to the Giants because it allows him to return to his home state of New Jersey for the next phase of his career.Peppers will be asked to do more than trade on his status as a local boy made good Myles Garrett Jersey White , of course. Giants General Manager Dave Gettleman called him a key piece to making the Odell Beckham trade happen and he’s part of the plan to replace safety Landon Collins on the Giants defense.During a Monday conference call, Gettleman was asked if he was concerned about Peppers being under undue pressure given his role and his homecoming.“I don’t think he feels that pressure,” Gettleman said. “He is just excited to be a Giant. It’s the team he grew up cheering for, this kid’s coming home. I don’t think he feels that pressure, and we certainly aren’t going to put that pressure on him. There is no reason for there to be that kind of pressure on him. He is coming here to be a safety, play football and help the New York Giants win games. It’s that simple.”Plenty of people have looked at the Giants’ moves this offseason and the makeup of their roster as signs that the team is rebuilding with an eye on trying to win in the future. While that would play into the pressure-free environment Gettleman pitched for Peppers, the G.M. rejected the notion that the Giants are trying to do anything other than win in 2019. Third-round pick in 2018 was invisible as a rookie Womens Joel Bitonio 2019 Jersey , but team is hoping for more from defensive end this year."It pays to have friends in high places. For proof, look no further than defensive end Chad Thomas, a third-round selection by the Cleveland Browns in the 2018 NFL Draft. Thomas had a rookie season to forget as he was a regular addition to the weekly inactive list and ultimately only saw the field for 22 plays all season. Despite that, the Browns are hoping for more from Thomas, who finished his four-year collegiate career at the University of Miami with 10 sacks, 26 tackles for loss and 103 total tackles.Alonzo Highsmith, the Browns vice president of player personnel and Orange Jim Brown Jersey , like Thomas, a former Hurricane, highlighted the second-year defensive end as someone who will “have an opportunity to play” in Sunday’s episode of Building the Browns. Thomas also has general manager John Dorsey in his corner, and Dorsey has shown a willingness to create opportunities for his draft picks to see the field. (See the trade of right guard Kevin Zeitler to clear a path for Austin Corbett as an example.)Back in February, Dorsey appeared on the team’s in-house show Cleveland Browns Daily anddropped a hint about opening up a path for Corbett and Thomas, according to 247Sports:The trade of defensive end Emmanuel Ogbah cleared out one of the obstacles in the way of Thomas seeing more playing time. Training camp and the preseason will probably move someone else out of the way.All kidding aside, the Browns invested a third-round pick in Thomas Jim Brown Jersey 2019 , so they need to start seeing a return on that, especially given the lack of production from the backups along the defensive line last season. So while Highsmith and Dorsey have a vested interest in Thomas, a more objective take comes from Clyde Simmons, who worked as the team’s defensive line coach in 2018. An early injury slowed Thomas during training camp, and once the regular season got rolling the opportunities for him to show what he could do were limited. But Simmons still likes Thomas’ potential, as he told cleveland.com in January:The Browns are doing what they can to create an opportunity for Thomas to show why he was worth drafting in 2018. What he does with the opportunity is now up to him.