{"id":1004816,"date":"2026-09-19T06:57:29","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T06:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/1004816\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T06:57:29","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T06:57:29","slug":"ny-giants-place-struggling-highly-paid-cb-on-ir-with-knee-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/1004816\/","title":{"rendered":"NY Giants place struggling, highly-paid CB on IR with knee injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The New York Giants are placing cornerback Paulson Adebo on injured reserve with a knee issue, head coach John Harbaugh confirmed to media at practice on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Adebo, in the second year of a three-year, $54 million contract, struggled this spring and summer and did not start in Week 1 against the Dallas Cowboys. Greg Newsome and Deonte Banks did. Adebo played only 10 snaps in that game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Adebo also missed five games last season with a knee injury. Expected to be the Giants\u2019 No. 1 cornerback when he signed in free agency, Adebo has not played up to that expectation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Giants also added cornerback Jaden Robinson to the practice squad, dropping offensive tackle Ryan Schernecke.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Banks did not practice on Friday. He is dealing with a calf injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">It isn\u2019t injury-related, but Harbaugh confirmed that defensive coordinator Dennard Wilson was not at practice due to a personal matter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">CB Paulson Adebo | Knee (placed on IR)<br \/>CB Deonte Banks | Calf<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">DE Chauncey Golston | Neck<br \/>G Francis Mauigoa | Shoulder<br \/>LB Micah McFadden | Neck<br \/>CB Greg Newsome | Rib<br \/>OT Andrew Thomas | Ankle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York Giants are placing cornerback Paulson Adebo on injured reserve with a knee issue, head coach&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1004817,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,30536,1978,6],"class_list":["post-1004816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-football","tag-new-york-giants-injuries","tag-new-york-giants-roster","tag-nfl"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/117296407650800440","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1004816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1004817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1004816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1004816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1004816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}