New York wanted to draft a linebacker last month after it lost middlelinebacker Chase Blackburn to free agency and released weakside linebacker Michael Boley.
Tackle Chris Canty and linebacker Michael Boley were released and safety Kenny Phillips and middlelinebacker Chase Blackburn signed with other teams as free agent.
According to the California Innocence Project, the woman later admitted that Banks had not kidnapped or raped her during a consensual encounter at Long Beach Polytechnic High School, where Banks was a middlelinebacker with a scholarship offer from the University of Southern California.
Their defence, anchored by middle-linebacker Sam Huff, closed down Cleveland's star runner, Jim Brown, (the future Hollywood actor) who recorded the worst performance of his career.