{"id":876756,"date":"2026-04-28T08:06:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T08:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/876756\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T08:06:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T08:06:21","slug":"ny-giants-news-first-player-signed-during-john-harbaugh-era-already-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/876756\/","title":{"rendered":"NY Giants news: First player signed during John Harbaugh era already released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The New York Giants released veteran defensive tackle DeMarvin Leal over the weekend, a small bit of news that went unnoticed with the 2026 NFL Draft having been in progress.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Leal played 32 games over four seasons for the Pittsburgh Steelers before being released in January and quickly signing a reserve\/futures contract with the Giants.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Leal will some day be an answer to the trivia question \u201cwho was the first free agent signed by the Giants during the John Harbaugh era?\u201d He will not, however, actually get a chance to go to training camp and compete for a job with the team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Giants still have a need on their defensive line. The drafting of Bobby Jamison-Travis was a step in the right direction, but proven veteran help is still needed. There has been an expectation that the Giants would sign veteran nose tackle D.J. Reader, but that has not happened as of yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York Giants released veteran defensive tackle DeMarvin Leal over the weekend, a small bit of news&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":876757,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,1207,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-876756","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-new-york-giants-news","10":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116481306394854941","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876756","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=876756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/876757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=876756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=876756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=876756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}