{"id":361809,"date":"2025-09-12T09:45:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T09:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/361809\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T09:45:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T09:45:15","slug":"giants-claim-wr-xavier-gipson-off-waivers-ilb-micah-mcfadden-placed-on-injured-reserve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/361809\/","title":{"rendered":"Giants claim WR Xavier Gipson off waivers; ILB Micah McFadden placed on injured reserve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Giants have claimed wide receiver and kick returner Xavier Gipson off waivers. In a corresponding move, inside linebacker Micah McFadden has been placed on injured reserve.<\/p>\n<p>Gipson played in 35 games after signing with the Jets as an undrafted free agent in 2023. The 24-year-old has returned 68 punts for 604 yards (8.9 avg.) and a touchdown to go with 44 kickoff returns for 1,142 yards (26.0 avg.).<\/p>\n<p>As a rookie, Gipson was on the field for 45 percent of the Jets&#8217; offensive snaps and finished with 21 receptions for 221 yards, in addition to eight rush attempts for 68 yards and a touchdown.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to the NFL, Gipson played at Stephen F. Austin State, where he was named second-team all-conference as a wide receiver and third-team all-conference as a kick returner in 2019. He registered 243 receptions for 4,305 yards and 37 touchdowns across 44 games in college, along with four total return touchdowns.<\/p>\n<p>McFadden suffered a foot injury during Sunday&#8217;s season opener in Washington. The fourth-year linebacker had three tackles (two solo) and a quarterback hit prior to the injury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Giants have claimed wide receiver and kick returner Xavier Gipson off waivers. In a corresponding move, inside&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":361810,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2067],"tags":[7,519,347,1917,56,2321,2469,6,13830],"class_list":{"0":"post-361809","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-giants","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-giants","10":"tag-homepage","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-giants","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkgiants","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-roster-transactions"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115190689166013666","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361809","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=361809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}