The Giants have signed QB David Carr to a 1-year deal to back up Eli Manning.  The 28-year old Carr played in 6 games last season for the Panthers and he completed 73 of 136 passes (53.7%) for 635 yards with 3 TD passes and 5 interceptions (58.3 QB Rating).  He also carried the ball 17 times for 59 yards (3.5 ypc).  Carr has now played in 82 games in his NFL career and he has completed 1,316 of 2,206 passes (59.7%) for 14,026 yards with 62 TD passes and 70 interceptions (74.4 QB Rating).  He also has carried the ball 285 times for 1,294 yards (4.5 ypc) with 8 TD runs.  Carr will be an upgrade over what the Giants had behind Manning last season, but that’s not saying much.

The Giants have signed linebacker Danny Clark to a 2-year, $4 million dollar contract.  He played in 13 games with the Texans last season and he made 51 tackles, defensed a pass, forced a fumble an intercepted 1 pass.  Clark has now played in 122 games in his NFL career and he has made 508 tackles, defensed 15 passes, has 5 sacks, forced 6 fumbles and intercepted 2 passes.  With all of the defections in the linebacking corps it appears that Clark will get a good chance to secure a starting job in 2008.

The Giants have signed veteran safety Sammy Knight to a 3-year, $5.1 million dollar contract.  Knight played in all 16 games last season for the Jaguars and he made 93 tackles, defensed 11 passes, forced 1 fumble and intercepted 4 passes.  Knight has now played in 174 games in his NFL career and he has made 1,044 tackles, defensed 93 passes, sacked the opposing QB 9 times, forced 13 fumbles and he picked off 42 passes including 4 that he returned for a TD.  Knight will likely replace Gibril Wilson in the starting lineup as he left to sign with the Oakland Raiders.

The Giants were not pleased with the way their run defense played so they signed DT Russell Davis to provide some help.  Davis played in 13 games last season for the Seahawks and he made 30 tackles and had 3 sacks.  Davis has played in 103 games in his NFL career and he has made 276 tackles, has 11.5 sacks, has defensed 11 passes and forced 3 fumbles.  He has the reputation of being a good run defender so he will likely work his way into the tackle rotation sooner rather than later.

The New York Giants have signed OG Zach Piller to a 1-year contract.  He only played in 3 games last season (all starts) for the Tennessee Titans because of injury.  Piller will iikely be a backup for the Giants but he has a lot of starting experience (58 games) over his career so he should provide quality depth.