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In yet another category the New York Giants probably wish they weren’t among the league leaders in, a study conducted by SportingPost.com, which analyzed five years of data provided by Spotrac, found that the Giants have been one of the most heavily fined teams over the five-year span of 2018-2022, having paid roughly $5.4 million.
The study revealed that the Giants paid the fourth-most in fines over that span and are one of only five teams to pay over $5 million. The other teams among the most heavily fined teams over the five years included the Arizona Cardinals, Cleveland Browns, the Denver Broncos, and the Tennessee Titans.
Like the Giants, each of those teams has not been very successful over the last five seasons in terms of won-loss records.
The good news for the Giants is that the player responsible for most of their fines over the last five seasons is no longer with the team. While he played in only 23 games over two seasons, receiver Golden Tate accounted for roughly 30 percent of the team’s fine total in those five years.
Tate paid nearly $2 million of the Giants’ total fines. Tate hasn’t played since the 2020 season, but he still ranks as the ninth-most fined player in the NFL in the last five seasons.
The good news is that things have started trending upward for the Giants. They were one of the least penalized teams in the league this past season, only being penalized 89 times after being one of the most penalized teams in 2022. The Giants were also one of the least-fined teams in the NFL this season, playing out less than $150,000 in fines. That ranked 23rd in the league this season.
