{"id":904346,"date":"2026-05-29T11:12:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T11:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/904346\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T11:12:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T11:12:27","slug":"new-york-giants-rookie-arvell-reese-continues-to-impress-during-otas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/904346\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Giants rookie Arvell Reese continues to impress during OTAs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/new-york-giants\/351\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:New York Giants;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;New York Giants&quot;}\" class=\"link \">New York Giants<\/a> selected former Ohio State linebacker Arvell Reese with the fifth overall pick in the 2026 NFL draft.<\/p>\n<p>Reese was widely regarded as one of the top players available on draft night. The former Ohio State star is expected to play a major role on the Giants&#8217; defense this season after continuing to impress during OTAs this week.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Giants radio host John Schmeelk recently shared his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.giants.com\/news\/touchdowns-takeaways-ota-no-5-jaxson-dart-eric-gray-calvin-austin-korie-black-brian-burns\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:observations on Reese\u2019s performance during OTAs;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;observations on Reese\u2019s performance during OTAs&quot;}\" class=\"link \">observations on Reese\u2019s performance during OTAs<\/a>, saying he has been extremely impressed with the rookie\u2019s efforts thus far.<\/p>\n<p>In what has become a daily occurrence, rookie linebacker Arvell Reese was in the perfect spot at the perfect time to line up a potential big hit after a completion to begin a two-minute drill. The defensive staff certainly can&#8217;t wait to see plays like that all the way through once they get into a game setting.<\/p>\n<p>Reese is expected to begin the 2026 season as <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nfl\/teams\/ny-jets\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:New York;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;New York&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York<\/a>\u2019s WILLlinebacker. The rookie enters his first NFL year with significant expectations and could quickly develop into the next star on the Giants\u2019 elite, young defense.<\/p>\n<p>Reese is likely to continue shining throughout the remainder of the offseason and has the potential to dominate in his first season with the team in New York.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Giants Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/giantswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/giants\/2026\/05\/29\/new-york-giants-rookie-arvell-reese-continues-impress-during-otas\/90300068007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:New York Giants rookie Arvell Reese continues to impress during OTAs;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;New York Giants rookie Arvell Reese continues to impress during OTAs&quot;}\" class=\"link \">New York Giants rookie Arvell Reese continues to impress during OTAs<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York Giants selected former Ohio State linebacker Arvell Reese with the fifth overall pick in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":904347,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2067],"tags":[2222,7,519,1917,56,2321,2469,6,1446,8405],"class_list":["post-904346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-giants","tag-arvell-reese","tag-football","tag-giants","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-giants","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkgiants","tag-nfl","tag-ohio-state","tag-otas"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116657569371102023","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904346","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=904346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/904347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=904346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=904346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=904346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}