{"id":816298,"date":"2026-03-17T01:55:37","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T01:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/816298\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T01:55:37","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T01:55:37","slug":"giants-host-free-agent-c-ryan-bates-for-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/816298\/","title":{"rendered":"Giants Host Free Agent C Ryan Bates For Visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\n        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>The New York Giants officially hosted free agent C Ryan Bates for a visit on Monday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nfltraderumors.co\/giants-host-free-agent-c-ryan-bates-for-visit\/nfl-new-orleans-saints-at-chicago-bears-10\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-664383 nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-664383\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/USATSI_27368967_168383805_lowres.jpg\" alt=\"Ryan Bates\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bates, 29, wound up going undrafted out of Penn State back in 2019. He agreed to a three-year, $1.755 million contract with the Eagles soon after.<\/p>\n<p>The Bills traded DE <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/H\/HaroEl00.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Eli Harold<\/a> to the Eagles in exchange for Bates back in 2019. Bates later agreed to a four-year contract with the Bears as a restricted free agent back in 2022, but the Bills opted to match the offer.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Buffalo ended up trading Bates to Chicago after all in 2024.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In 2025, Bates was active for 16 games for the Bears, but did not make a start for them.<\/p>\n<p>Looking for the latest NFL Insider News &amp; Rumors?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Be sure to follow <a style=\"color: #008000;\" href=\"https:\/\/nfltraderumors.co\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NFL Trade Rumors<\/a> on <a style=\"color: #008000;\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/nfltrade_rumors\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">X.com<\/a>\u00a0and <a style=\"color: #008000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/nfltraderumors\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FACEBOOK<\/a>\u00a0for breaking NFL News and Rumors for all 32 teams!<\/p>\n<p>        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n        &#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<br \/>\n            &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n                                    \t                &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; The New York Giants officially hosted free agent C Ryan Bates for a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":816299,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2067],"tags":[7,519,1917,56,2321,2469,6,26279],"class_list":["post-816298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-giants","tag-football","tag-giants","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-giants","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkgiants","tag-nfl","tag-ryan-bates"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116242031704356133","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816298","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=816298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/816299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=816298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=816298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=816298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}