{"id":251273,"date":"2025-10-16T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/?p=251273"},"modified":"2025-10-16T08:02:56","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T12:02:56","slug":"chargers-giants-jermaine-eluemunor-season-saving-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2025\/10\/16\/chargers-giants-jermaine-eluemunor-season-saving-trade\/","title":{"rendered":"Chargers, Giants Could Work Out Season-Saving Trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Los Angeles Chargers entered the season with arguably the game&#8217;s top tackle duo in Rashawn Slater and Joe Alt. Unfortunately, both players suffered serious injuries, and what was once a major strength is now a position of weakness. While <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2025\/10\/14\/chargers-injury-report-2-superstars-soon-to-be-returning\/\" target=\"_self\">Alt will return<\/a> at some point in the season, Slater is done for the year and this team must find another tackle. In a recent article, <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.pff.com\/news\/20-trade-candidates-ahead-of-the-2025-nfl-trade-deadline\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bradley Locker of Pro Football Focus<\/a> suggested the Chargers trade for Jermaine Eluemunor of the New York Giants.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Eluemunor has quietly developed into a solid pass-protecting right tackle,&#8221; Locker writes. &#8220;Through Week 6, he&#8217;s notched a 71.0-plus PFF pass-blocking grade in each of his two seasons with the Giants, allowing just six sacks on 760 opportunities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_251274\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-251274\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-251274\" src=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/10\/Giants-Trade-Jermaine-Eluemunor-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"Giants Trade Jermaine Eluemunor\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/10\/Giants-Trade-Jermaine-Eluemunor-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/10\/Giants-Trade-Jermaine-Eluemunor-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/10\/Giants-Trade-Jermaine-Eluemunor-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/10\/Giants-Trade-Jermaine-Eluemunor-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/10\/Giants-Trade-Jermaine-Eluemunor-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/10\/Giants-Trade-Jermaine-Eluemunor-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/10\/Giants-Trade-Jermaine-Eluemunor.jpg 1877w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-251274\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aug 4, 2025; East Rutherford, NJ, USA; New York Giants guard Jermaine Eluemunor (72) looks on during training camp at Quest Diagnostics Training Center. Mandatory Credit: Vincent Carchietta-Imagn Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>Chargers, Giants Urged To Work On Jermaine Eluemunor Trade<\/h2>\n<p>As stated above, the Los Angeles Chargers need a right tackle, and Jermaine Eluemunor might be the best one on the market. While he&#8217;s far from a household name, the former journeyman found a home in New York and has played well over the past few seasons. Add in his ability to play both tackle positions and even guard, and it&#8217;s easy to see why the Chargers would want him. <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2025\/08\/04\/keenan-allen-chargers-reunion-jim-harbaugh\/\" target=\"_self\">Head coach Jim Harbaugh<\/a> believes in winning games in the trenches, and Eluemunor would improve a unit that has suffered injury after injury throughout the season.<\/p>\n<p>The only question is whether or not the Giants would be willing to trade Jermaine Eluemunor. While the team doesn&#8217;t stand much of a shot at the playoffs with their 2-4 record, they shouldn&#8217;t lose quality offensive linemen. <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2025\/05\/30\/the-best-matchups-for-jaxson-darts-debut\/\" target=\"_self\">Rookie Jaxson Dart<\/a> has played well during his brief time in the league, but the recent successes of Baker Mayfield, Sam Darnold, and Daniel Jones show that environment plays a pivotal role in developing quarterbacks. New York does not have an ideal replacement for Eluemunor, so why would they trade him and risk disrupting Dart&#8217;s development?<\/p>\n<p><em>Main Photo: Vincent Carchietta &#8211; Imagn Images<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Giants and Los Angeles Chargers could work out a trade for offensive tackle Jermaine Eluemunor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2376,"featured_media":251275,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[36,18,20,6431],"tags":[7642,33129,9664,7300],"class_list":["post-251273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nfl-news","category-chargers","category-giants","category-nfl-teams","tag-chargers-featured","tag-jaxson-dart","tag-jermaine-eluemunor","tag-new-york-giants-news"],"modified_by":"David Latham, Managing Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2376"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":251276,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251273\/revisions\/251276"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}