Korie Black explains why he ditched New York Giants for Jets

One of the most intriguing stories of the past week surrounding the New York Giants involves one of their 2025 seventh-round picks, cornerback Korie Black from Oklahoma State, who they selected 246th overall this spring.

Black was injured most of training camp and played sparingly, but he made the team's 53-man roster only to be cut the next day. The Giants claimed New Orleans cornerback Rico Payton off waivers and needed to make room for him, so they let Black go with the intention of signing him back to the practice squad.

Black saw this as a sign and couldn't wait.

The crosstown New York Jets came calling, and Black accepted their practice squad offer. The Giants' little roster gamble backfired. They placed Payton on injured reserve (IR) two days later, but Black was no longer available for them to re-add to their roster or practice squad.

"I appreciate the Giants, the GM, everybody over there," Black told the New York Post. "It's a business, so things happen."

Black explained that nothing is guaranteed in the NFL. Perhaps the Giants didn't express their intentions clearly enough to him.

"To be honest, you never really know," he said. "Anything could happen. I could've stayed there, and something could've happened. I could've came here and something happens, so you never really know."

The Jets liked what they saw in Black both in joint practices and in their preseason loss to the Giants.

"Just seeing him (Black) on tape," Jets defensive coordinator Steve Wilks told The Post. "The length, the speed, those kinds of things. I always believe, when you try to get guys like that, it's the things that you can’t really coach, things that they have in regards to that. It's still a work in progress, we know as the season progresses, Week 10, Week 13, they gotta be ready to play."

The Giants saw the same things in Black as well, but general manager Joe Schoen gets an itchy trigger finger the day after the roster deadline. This time, it cost him a player the team was counting on keeping.

"He had a good spring," Schoen said. "He showed some traits there that we were excited about. Unfortunately, just injured in camp, so we'll see what happens there."

If the Giants want Black back, they can sign him off the Jets' practice squad, but only if they plan on placing him on their 53-man roster.

This article originally appeared on Giants Wire: Korie Black explains why he ditched New York Giants for Jets