Because $2M is freak all if you manage to turn him into even a serviceable swing tackle, and the 7th because there are teams ahead of us in the waiver order who might have interest.
inb4 Alio turns up to tell me how the Giants will never trade with the Jets or something.
I'm pretty sure I never said anything like that.
Not wanting to trade their draft pick in the draft that could net them a player like Darnold is quite different from trading a player they don't want for a pick that could be useful later.
And in hindsight, I'd have been right about the draft. Could you imagine Giants fans right now, had the Giants traded down to allow the Jets to pick Darnold in their spot? All those fans would be screaming that they should have taken Darnold (and they were to begin with anyway) and that they gave him away to the Jets. And there's no way the papers wouldn't be eviscerating them right now.