{"id":807352,"date":"2026-03-12T01:50:02","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T01:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/807352\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T01:50:02","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T01:50:02","slug":"micah-mcfadden-on-huge-factor-that-brought-him-back-to-giants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/807352\/","title":{"rendered":"Micah McFadden on ‘huge factor’ that brought him back to Giants"},"content":{"rendered":"

Where other teams had questions for Micah McFadden during free agency, the Giants had a lot of answers.\u00a0<\/p>\n

McFadden played just 12 snaps last season before he suffered a season-ending Lisfranc injury to his foot. He stayed around East Rutherford to rehab after surgery. <\/p>\n

That gave the Giants insight into his recovery, while other linebacker-needy teams who haven\u2019t seen him on the field since Week 1 would have to guess with blind faith.<\/p>\n

Mutual interest in a reunion came to fruition Wednesday when McFadden signed a one-year, $3.5 million contract <\/a>that maxes out at $5.5 million, according to sources.<\/p>\n

\u201cThem seeing me recover and get back to where I was by the end of the season, I think that answered a lot of the questions that they had,\u201d McFadden said, \u201cso that kind of narrowed down some of the options by the end of it. It\u2019s a huge factor in all this.\u201d<\/p>\n

McFadden said he is \u201cdoing great\u201d and doesn\u2019t expect to have any \u201climitations\u201d when spring workouts begin April 6.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve improved a lot even since the end of the year,\u201d McFadden said. \u201cGetting back to a place where I was able to go back home and kind of start my normal offseason program \u2014 working out and running and doing everything I need to do to play football this year.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"NewGiants linebacker Micah McFadden re-signed with the Giants. AP<\/p>\n

McFadden will return to a different linebacker corps than the one he started 35 games in since 2022.<\/p>\n

The Giants cut his three-year running mate Bobby Okereke and replaced him with free agent addition Tremaine Edmunds (three years, $36 million).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Pencil in McFadden as a starter for now, though he could be challenged by internal favorite Darius Muasau or lose the job to potential first-round pick Sonny Styles.<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously it will be a competitive room,\u201d McFadden said. \u201cI think they will continue to bring guys in, and that\u2019s no surprise: It\u2019s the NFL. My thing is I\u2019m going to go out there, compete and go and try and win a starting job, and go put my best foot forward \u2026 and we\u2019ll see where it falls after that.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Giants have lost four other members of McFadden\u2019s 2022 draft class during free agency, but the new John Harbaugh-led coaching staff identified potential in his pre-injury film. <\/p>\n

He received word last weekend that there was interest in re-signing him.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt means a lot,\u201d McFadden said. \u201cI think it was a phenomenal hire. I got to speak with the coaches and John this morning. I\u2019m really excited to be a part. I think they have a great thing going that they have been building around here. And I\u2019m excited to be in this scheme.\u201d\u201cI\u2019m excited to get in the room with him and learn from him,\u201d McFadden said, \u201cand learn with him and put this thing together as we get going in the offseason program.\u201d<\/p>\n

McFadden has admired Edmunds\u2019 game from afar since entering the league.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Where other teams had questions for Micah McFadden during free agency, the Giants had a lot of answers.\u00a0…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":807353,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2067],"tags":[7,519,1917,56,2321,2469,6,89225,2592,9],"class_list":{"0":"post-807352","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-newyork","13":"tag-newyorkgiants","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-nfl-free-agency-2026","16":"tag-nfl-free-agency","17":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116213700412185623","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807352","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=807352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/807353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}