{"id":824661,"date":"2026-03-21T06:07:32","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T06:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/824661\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T06:07:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T06:07:32","slug":"ny-giants-news-abdul-carter-changes-his-number-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/824661\/","title":{"rendered":"NY Giants news: Abdul Carter changes his number, again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">If you bought an Abdul Carter No. 51 jersey last season, you can put that one up on a shelf. The second-year edge defender has again changed his number.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Carter will wear No. 3 during the upcoming season, the team announced on Friday. That belonged to quarterback Russell Wilson last season, but Wilson is now a free agent and will not return to the Giants.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Carter\u2019s jersey number has been a story ever since the Giants made him the No. 3 pick in the 2025 NFL Draft.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Carter initially asked Hall of Famer Lawrence Taylor if he could wear Taylor\u2019s retired No. 56. He was rebuffed. Carter then tried for the No. 11 he wore at Penn State. That number is retired by the Giants in honor of Phil Simms. Simms was originally OK with the idea, but his family objected and that idea died.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Carter wore No. 51 as a rookie, but never really seemed to embrace the number. Let\u2019s see how he takes to this one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you bought an Abdul Carter No. 51 jersey last season, you can put that one up on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":824662,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2067],"tags":[7,519,1917,56,1207,2321,2469,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-824661","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-news","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkgiants","15":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116265671438126011","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824661","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=824661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/824662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=824661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=824661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=824661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}