Paulson Adebo ready to be aggressive, 'do everything' for New York Giants

USA Today

13-06-2025

Paulson Adebo ready to be aggressive, 'do everything' for New York Giants
The New York Giants signed free agent cornerback Paulson Adebo this offseason to fill several needs.
First, to give them a marquee corner to pair with former first-rounder Deonte Banks, and second, to add leadership to a very young secondary, even though he's just 25 himself.
Both head coach Brian Daboll and defensive coordinator Shane Bowen have been pleased with Adebo thus far in the offseason program as he rehabs from a broken leg that shortened his season last year with New Orleans.
"Great, pro, comes to work every day, practices hard, makes plays on the football, he's long. We've seen that more than a few times out here, whether it's picking a pass off, whether it's getting a PBU, not afraid to challenge," Bowen said last week.
"I think just for that room, a relatively younger room, I think he's been an asset in there as well, just the experience, the knowledge... Again, like coming in we have high expectations for him and part of that was the leadership role. Like we're expecting you to come in here and take on that role and thrive in that role and hopefully continue to help us to develop some of these younger guys."
Adebo is ready to take up the challenge of leading the young group and is also looking forward to creating turnovers. Bowen has installed a "turnover chest" and is throwing down the gauntlet to his players to fill it this season.
"Super cool," Adebo said to reporters this week in regards to the turnover chest. "You know, I'm happy and excited to try to get a lot of turnovers and hopefully I can put a lot of balls in there."
Adebo adds an extra dimension to this defense and is fully aware of his abilities as well as his role with the Giants.
"A really aggressive corner," he said when asked to describe his skillset. "Ball production, tackles, I feel like just a complete corner overall.
"I like to do everything. Aggressive, zone scheme, man scheme. I feel like I can adapt to kind of everything and game situation, playmaking, matchups. So, I feel like I could do everything. "
And the Giants just might all on him to do all of those things.