Giants waive CB, former supplemental draft pick Sam Beal

The Sam Beal era with the New York Giants is officially over and won't be much to remember in the future. 

As Josh Alper explained for Pro Football Talk, the Giants waived Beal on Tuesday during their bye. It's the end of a relationship that started when New York acquired the cornerback via a third-round pick in the 2018 Supplemental Draft that stalled out before it ever really began, and it ends with a whimper after Beal was more a spectator than a contributor during his Big Blue tenure. 

Beal missed what should've been his entire rookie season with a shoulder injury, and other physical setbacks kept him off the field for all but six games in 2019. The 25-year-old opted out of the 2020 campaign held amid the COVID-19 pandemic when vaccines weren't available to players, and he appeared in only three games this fall before the Giants moved on. 

Before Tuesday's development, Beal most recently generated headlines when it was learned in June he pleaded guilty to a pair of gun-related charges following an arrest that occurred in Ohio in June 2020. He entered a pretrial diversion program and received two years of probation.