{"id":756680,"date":"2026-02-16T20:16:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T20:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/756680\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T20:16:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T20:16:21","slug":"ny-giants-nfl-free-agency-2026-te-isaiah-likely-a-potential-target","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/756680\/","title":{"rendered":"NY Giants NFL free agency 2026: TE Isaiah Likely a potential target"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">If the New York Giants lose tight end Daniel Bellinger in NFL free agency, it seems unlikely they would simply give the backup tight end job to untested 2025 seventh-round pick Thomas Fidone. That could open the door for the Giants to bring in one of John Harbaugh\u2019s former players with the Baltimore Ravens, tight end Isaiah Likely.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Likely, entering his age 26 season, is a four-year veteran who caught 135 passes, 15 for touchdowns, in 63 regular-season games after the Ravens made him a fourth-round pick in the 2022 NFL Draft. Likely was chosen 139th by the Ravens. Bellinger was taken 112th by the Giants.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The 2025 season was the 6-foot-4, 245-pound Likely\u2019s least-productive in Baltimore, as he caught just 27 passes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">SB Nation\u2019s Dawgs By Nature expects the Cleveland Browns, with former Ravens offensive coordinator Todd Monken as head coach, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawgsbynature.com\/cleveland-browns-free-agency\/117703\/browns-free-agency-te-isaiah-david-njoku-todd-monken\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">to be a bidder for Likely<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Spotrac expects Likely\u2019s market value to be somewhere in the range of two years, $17.6 million, an average of $8.8 million per year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">Likely had a down year in 2025 but ranked earned an eighth-ranked 77.1 PFF receiving grade in 2024. It\u2019s worth noting that he was likely hindered in 2025 by a foot injury suffered in training camp. Given that Likely will be just 26 years old when the 2026 campaign begins, it wouldn\u2019t be surprising to see him have a big market in free agency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Would you rather see the Giants keep Bellinger, or add Likely? Let us know in the comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If the New York Giants lose tight end Daniel Bellinger in NFL free agency, it seems unlikely they&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":756681,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2067],"tags":[7,519,1917,56,7558,2321,2469,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-756680","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-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkgiants","15":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116082153274323652","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756680","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=756680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/756681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=756680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=756680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=756680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}