Osi Umenyiora needs a legitimate payday, beyond any doubt. In any case there's something else the two-time Super Bowl champ seeks in the first taste of unhindered office in his 10-year job.
The most amazing private award of all of them.
"I'm shooting for preventive player of the group in the not so distant future," Umenyiora, a guarding end for the New York Giants since the crew drafted him in 2003, composed in a message to USA TODAY Sports. "Whatever crew I sense that I can assist score and will give me an opportunity to do that, that is where I'm going. The cash is a side effect of that, you know."
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Umenyiora has 75 profession sacks, has been one of the best speed rushers in the diversion over the past decade and is an expert of the strip sack moreover. He set a NFL record with 10 compelled bumbles in 2010.
Anyhow Umenyiora has been seen as an one-dimensional player for some time. He was even downgraded from his beginning spot in 2009 in view of underprivileged play opposite the run.
The two-time Pro Bowl choice needs others to know he can do more than rate hurry the quarterback and swipe at the ball. He plans to demonstrate it with his afterward head honcho.
The Atlanta Falcons and New England Patriots might be right around his top suitors.
Regardless of where he arrives, Umenyiora thinks he's setting off to make a run at the recompense for the NFL's top opposing player.
"It's heading off to happen, too," he composed. "An objective without an arrangement is a wish. What's more I have an arrangement.
"Recall we had this discourse."
