{"id":360422,"date":"2025-09-11T21:08:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T21:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/360422\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T21:08:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T21:08:11","slug":"giants-lb-micah-mcfadden-to-undergo-foot-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/360422\/","title":{"rendered":"Giants LB Micah McFadden To Undergo Foot Surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"

Micah McFadden<\/a>\u00a0suffered a foot injury during the Giants\u2019 season opener. The fourth-year linebacker is facing a lengthy absence as a result. \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

McFadden is set to miss a \u201csignificant\u201d portion of the 2025 campaign, as first reported by Mike Garafolo and Ian Rapoport of NFL Network<\/a>. Surgery is now on tap, ESPN\u2019s Jordan Raanan adds<\/a>. McFadden is considered likely to return at some point this season, per Raanan.<\/p>\n

Even so, losing the 25-year-old will deal a blow to New York\u2019s defense. McFadden played a rotational role during his rookie season before becoming a full-time starter the following year. His snap share jumped once more in 2024, reaching 75%. Another impactful campaign was expected in McFadden\u2019s case for this season, the final one of his rookie contract.<\/p>\n

As a pending free agent, the timing of McFadden\u2019s injury is particularly troublesome. The former fifth-rounder\u2019s market value will be dictated in large part by his play in 2025, but that will prove to be a small sample size. In McFadden\u2019s absence,\u00a0Darius Muasau<\/a> \u2013 selected in the sixth round of last year\u2019s draft \u2013 took over as a starter on defense in Week 1. That could continue moving forward, although other options will be explored at the second level of the Giants\u2019 defense.<\/p>\n

When speaking to the media on Thursday, defensive coordinator\u00a0Shane Bowen\u00a0said (via Raanan<\/a>) the team has \u201cgot to consider\u201d using\u00a0Abdul Carter<\/a>\u00a0as a weakside linebacker in the wake of losing McFadden. Carter, this year\u2019s No. 3 overall pick, worked exclusively as an edge rusher last season and thrived in that capacity. The Penn State product previously saw time as a linebacker, however, so at least a part-time role in that regard could be feasible.<\/p>\n

The Giants have\u00a0Brian Burns<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Kayvon Thibodeaux<\/a> in place as starters along the edge, something which led to questions entering the season about Carter\u2019s workload. He handled a 50% snap share in Week 1, and Bowen noted that will change on a week-to-week basis. Given McFadden\u2019s absence for the foreseeable future, it will be interesting to see if Carter\u2019s rookie campaign winds up including responsibilities at more than one position.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Micah McFadden\u00a0suffered a foot injury during the Giants\u2019 season opener. The fourth-year linebacker is facing a lengthy absence…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360423,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2067],"tags":[291,7,519,8351,1917,56,2321,2469,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-360422","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-giants","8":"tag-abdul-carter","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-giants","11":"tag-micah-mcfadden","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-giants","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkgiants","16":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115187712413449520","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360422","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=360422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}