{"id":886167,"date":"2026-05-09T01:09:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T01:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/886167\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T01:09:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T01:09:17","slug":"one-arvell-reese-game-sold-abdul-carter-on-his-future-giants-teammate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/886167\/","title":{"rendered":"One Arvell Reese game sold Abdul Carter on his future Giants teammate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even with Penn State blood running through his veins, Abdul Carter couldn\u2019t help but respect the Ohio State linebacker who \u201cpopped off the screen\u201d against his alma mater in a rivalry game.<\/p>\n<p>Arvell Reese made such a strong impression with 12 tackles and a sack during that game last November that Carter rooted for him to be the Giants\u2019 pick at No. 5 in the NFL draft even though the two Big Ten products didn\u2019t have a personal relationship at the time.<\/p>\n<p>The wish came true <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/23\/sports\/giants-surprisingly-go-arvell-reese-with-no-5-pick-of-2026-nfl-draft\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">after the Jets passed on Reese<\/a>, and Carter set Giants nation ablaze with fire emoji tweets in reaction to the pick.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust knowing what he can do, just watching him and the violence he plays with and how fast he plays, it\u2019s going to be fun,\u201d Carter told The Post on Friday morning. \u201cWe\u2019re on the same side now. How physical he plays, that\u2019s going to be real helpful for us.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Even with Penn State blood running through his veins, Abdul Carter couldn\u2019t help but respect the Ohio State&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":886168,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2067],"tags":[291,2222,4413,7,519,1917,56,2321,2469,6,9,3248],"class_list":["post-886167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-giants","tag-abdul-carter","tag-arvell-reese","tag-exclusive","tag-football","tag-giants","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-giants","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkgiants","tag-nfl","tag-sports","tag-sports-plus"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116541952096393015","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886167","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=886167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/886168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=886167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=886167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=886167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}