{"id":697977,"date":"2026-01-23T03:53:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T03:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/697977\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T03:53:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T03:53:12","slug":"ny-giants-news-ex-pittsburgh-steelers-dt-is-first-signing-of-john-harbaugh-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/697977\/","title":{"rendered":"NY Giants news: Ex-Pittsburgh Steelers DT is first signing of John Harbaugh era"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The New York Giants made a minor roster move on Thursday, signing former Pittsburgh Steelers defensive tackle DeMarvin Leal to a reserve\/futures contract.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Perhaps the most noteworthy thing about this is that Leal will now become the answer to the trivia question \u201cwho was the first player the Giants signed in the John Harbaugh era?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Leal was a third-round pick by the Steelers in the 2022 NFL Draft. He has played in 32 games over four seasons for the Steelers, with six starts. Leal has one career sack, 35 tackles, and three quarterback hits. Having played the Steelers twice a year as Baltimore Ravens coach, Harbaugh is certainly familiar with him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Leal, 25, is 6-foot-4, 290 pounds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">This is certainly not the kind of big free agent news we will get in a couple of months. Nor is it anywhere as impactful as the changes currently going on throughout the Giants\u2019 coaching staff and front office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Still, roster building goes on constantly and defensive line depth is never a bad thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York Giants made a minor roster move on Thursday, signing former Pittsburgh Steelers defensive tackle DeMarvin&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":697978,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2067],"tags":[7,519,1917,56,7558,1207,1978,2321,2469,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-697977","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-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-giants","12":"tag-new-york-giants-free-agency","13":"tag-new-york-giants-news","14":"tag-new-york-giants-roster","15":"tag-newyork","16":"tag-newyorkgiants","17":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115942392537299551","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697977","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=697977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/697978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}