{"id":865591,"date":"2026-04-13T16:12:37","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T16:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/865591\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T16:12:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T16:12:37","slug":"ny-giants-news-journeyman-qb-brandon-allen-signs-with-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/865591\/","title":{"rendered":"NY Giants news: Journeyman QB Brandon Allen signs with New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">The New York Giants have <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MySportsUpdate\/status\/2043712301673382096\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:reportedly signed veteran Brandon Allen to be their third quarterback;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;reportedly signed veteran Brandon Allen to be their third quarterback&quot;}\" class=\"link \">reportedly signed veteran Brandon Allen to be their third quarterback<\/a>, replacing Russell Wilson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The Giants, of course, were never going to enter on-field offseason workouts in a few weeks with only Jaxson Dart and Jameis Winston at quarterback.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Allen, who will turn 34 in September, was a sixth-round pick by the Jacksonville Jaguars in 2016.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Allen has played in 19 games for the Denver Broncos, Cincinnati Bengals, San Francisco 49ers and Tennessee Titans with 10 starts. His teams have a 2-8 record in those starts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Allen spent last season with the Titans as a backup to Cam Ward. He played in one game, going 17 of 30 for just 72 yards and an interception.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">In his career, Allen has completed 183 of 323 passes (56.7%) for 1,882 yards, with 11 touchdowns and nine interceptions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Allen has a connection to Giants quarterbacks coach Brian Callahan. They were together in both Cincinnati and Tennessee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York Giants have reportedly signed veteran Brandon Allen to be their third quarterback, replacing Russell Wilson.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":865592,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2067],"tags":[8507,1811,127,256,258,7,5629,519,125,1801,13,1917,56,2321,2469,6,572,252,394,1799],"class_list":{"0":"post-865591","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-giants","8":"tag-brandon-allen","9":"tag-brian-callahan","10":"tag-cam-ward","11":"tag-cincinnati-bengals","12":"tag-denver-broncos","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-getty-images","15":"tag-giants","16":"tag-jacksonville-jaguars","17":"tag-jameis-winston","18":"tag-jaxson-dart","19":"tag-new-york","20":"tag-new-york-giants","21":"tag-newyork","22":"tag-newyorkgiants","23":"tag-nfl","24":"tag-russell-wilson","25":"tag-san-francisco-49ers","26":"tag-tennessee-titans","27":"tag-the-giants"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116398283422039664","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865591","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=865591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/865592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=865591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=865591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=865591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}