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La Canfora: Giants will trade for QB Derek Carr at The Combine

Derek Carr is currently under contract with the Oakland Raiders through the 2022 season, but CBS Sports NFL Insider Jason La Canfora believes that he will soon be a member of the New York Giants as their next franchise quarterback.

In a very bold prediction, La Canfora asserted the Giants will trade for Carr this coming February at the 2019 NFL Combine after moving on from current starter Eli Manning this offseason.

"I think the big final play ... sort of how you look at their teardown. There were these incremental moves, and it finally ended at the draft when they move up to get Josh Allen. The final one will be Derek Carr and I don't think it will be close to the draft, I think it will be at the combine," La Canfora said on the Pick Six podcast with Will Brinson. "And ultimately what's the point of keeping Derek Carr? And if you have all this draft capital and you get a one plus something else for Derek Carr, which I think he can -- I'll call it right now, Derek Carr to the New York Giants. At the combine."

According to La Canfora, the logic on this proposed deal adds up because the Raiders will want to completely reboot the roster in first-year head coach Jon Gruden's image and that vision will not include Carr. On the flip side, La Canfora argues that everything first-year Giants general manager Dave Gettleman has done until now proves he does not want a complete reboot of New York's roster.

"That makes all the sense in the world to me. The Giants don't really want to rebuild. And they don't really want to admit they screwed up by not taking a quarterback, right?" La Canfora said. "So they trade what will be a fairly high [first-round pick] or maybe they do it for a future [first-round pick] if this one looks like it's going to be top two or three. I think that's what they do and they plug him right in there with Barkley, Odell and Shephard and [Evan Engram] and they try to keep that thing going."

There is certainly a lot to unpack here in La Canfora's prediction. For starters, let's just look at the salary cap implications of a proposed trade like this one and why they will make a deal very difficult to complete for both sides. Carr signed a six-year, $126.15 million contract extension in June of 2017. According to Spotrac, the Raiders have a potential "out" in Carr's contract this offseason when they can release him and only incur a $7.5 million "dead salary cap" hit on his $22.5 million 2019 salary cap hit overall. However, the salary cap ramifications get a bit trickier when a player is involved in a trade and it's unclear how much of Carr's 2019 cap hit (and beyond) would be required of the Giants to take on.