{"id":753658,"date":"2026-02-15T10:32:28","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T10:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/753658\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T10:32:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T10:32:28","slug":"ny-giants-hire-new-head-athletic-trainer-for-first-time-since-1981-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/753658\/","title":{"rendered":"NY Giants hire new head athletic trainer for first time since 1981"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">The New York Giants announced Friday afternoon that they have hired Adam Bennett as their new head athletic trainer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Bennett is a certified athletic trainer, strength and conditioning specialist, and holds a certified performance sports scientist certification<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Bennett had previously been the head athletic trainer for the University of Miami, a position which he held since 2023. Prior to helping Miami to the 2025-2026 College Football National Championship, Bennett worked with injured service members at the Special Operations Command Headquarters at McGill Air Force Base.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">When with the Air Force, Bennet was working to rehab old, as well as new, injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cIn the military, you\u2019re dealing with injuries that might be six, 10, 12 years old and they just didn\u2019t deal with it because they were going on deployment after deployment and they had to go, go, go,\u201d Bennett said in 2024 interview with the Hurricanes\u2019 official website.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Bennet has also been the head athletic trainer at FAU from 2017 to 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Ronnie Barnes had previously been the Giants\u2019 head trainer, holding the position since 1981. His role with the team changed earlier in the offseason. Barnes will continue to oversee the team\u2019s medical services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York Giants announced Friday afternoon that they have hired Adam Bennett as their new head athletic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":753659,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2067],"tags":[107921,107922,24669,7,519,107923,1917,56,2321,2469,6,82001,19114],"class_list":{"0":"post-753658","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-giants","8":"tag-adam-bennett","9":"tag-athletic-trainer","10":"tag-college-football-national-championship","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-giants","13":"tag-head-trainer","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-giants","16":"tag-newyork","17":"tag-newyorkgiants","18":"tag-nfl","19":"tag-ronnie-barnes","20":"tag-the-university-of-miami"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116074194284448049","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753658","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=753658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/753659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=753658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=753658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=753658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}