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NY Giants news, 3/17: Best free agents available, and a look at the roster
Good morning, New York Giants fans!
From Big Blue View
- NY Giants free agency 2026: 5 players New York should still target
- NY Giants’ roster: What it might look like if there were a game today
- Fullback Patrick Ricard expands Giants’ options in the run game
- NFL free agency: Are the 2026 NY Giants more talented than the 2025 Giants?
- NY Giants 2026 NFL Draft: Prospect profiles
- NY Giants 2026 NFL Draft scouting report: T.J. Parker, EDGE, Clemson
- Pro Day tracker: Schedule, results, Giants attendance, more
- NY Giants NFL Draft meetings tracker 2026: Players the Giants have met with
- NY Giants free agency contracts, salary cap tracker
Other Giant observations
2026 NFL free agency grades: Justin Fields, Rasheed Walker | ESPN.com
Giants signing LB Tremaine Edmunds. Terms: Three years, $36 million. Grade: C. I’ll add a caveat to this by saying linebackers are hard to quantify, but Edmunds’ tackle rate against the run was only in the 32nd percentile among off-ball linebackers last season, while his run stop win rate was in the 34th percentile. He did have four interceptions last season, but he also allowed 1.1 yards per coverage snap (higher than average).
Looking at free agency rankings, opinions are split on Edmunds. But considering the top linebacker, Devin Lloyd, is getting $15 million per year and Devin Bush — who is signing with the Bears — is getting only $10 million per year, the $12 million Edmunds is receiving seems a little rich.
Baldy: Keep an eye on the Giants
2026 NFL free agency grades for all 32 teams | PFF
New York Giants: C. This one-year deal for CB Greg Newsome II comes in right around PFF’s projected per-year average. Newsome struggled in each of the past two seasons after earning PFF coverage grades between 69.9 and 72.3 from 2021 to 2023. He is just 25 years old, so there is still room for growth, and a one-year pact gives him the opportunity to prove that he deserves a bigger deal in the future.
Calvin Austin was given the chance to be the Steelers’ WR2 but never settled into the role. His 2025 season was a trying one, recording a 55.4 PFF receiving grade and dropping 8.1% of his passes. Austin could be a relatively cheap and fast replacement to Wan’Dale Robinson in the slot, but he’s yet to hit his NFL potential.
After first wave of 2026 free agency, what are the top needs for every NFL team? | The Athletic
Take your pick between right guard and defensive tackle. For all of new coach John Harbaugh’s emphasis on the trenches, the Giants were shockingly inactive on the interior of both lines during the first wave of free agency. And no, re-signing draft bust Evan Neal doesn’t count. The good news is that there are still plenty of quality veterans available at both positions. That should produce bargains at this stage of free agency. Patience could pay off for the Giants, but they need to add a starting right guard and a starting defensive tackle to ease concerns about the state of their lines.
1 Word to Describe Every Team’s 2026 NFL Offseason After Early Free Agency | Bleacher Report
New York Giants: Reimagined. These offseason moves are exactly what you’d expect from a team undergoing a regime change. John Harbaugh is looking to ignite a quick turnaround with some familiar faces (Isaiah Likely, Ar’Darius Washington, and Patrick Ricard) and some players that fit his mold (Tremaine Edmunds and Greg Newsome II).
Chase Daniels on a free agency centered on helping Jaxson Dart
Giants’ Paulson Adebo, Jevon Holland get 2026 salaries guaranteed | USAToday.com
Holland signed a three-year, $45 million contract with the Giants last March with $30.3 million guaranteed. His 2026 salary cap hit is $18.59 million. Last October, the Giants converted $3.29 million of Holland’s 2025 salary into a signing bonus, creating $2.2 million in cap space.
Adebo inked a three-year, $54 million deal last March with $38.5 million in guarantees. His cap hit for this year is $24.2 million. Last October, the Giants converted $3.9 million of Adebo’s 2025 salary into a signing bonus, clearing $2.6 million in cap space.
Giants’ Micah McFadden is recovering on schedule | New York Post
Daniel J. Kaplan, MD, a Sports Orthopedic Surgeon with NYU Langone, explains Giants linebacker Micah McFadden’s recovery process from a season-ending Lisfranc injury.
Around the league
Dallas Goedert, Eagles agree to new 1-year contract | Bleeding Green Nation
How the Rashan Gary trade affects the team’s draft strategy | Blogging the Boys
Washington Commanders Free Agency: Jeremy McNichols returns for another year | Hogs Haven
Patriots sign former Giant Niko Lalos as a long snapper | Pro Football Talk
Sources: Jets to trade QB Justin Fields to Chiefs for 2027 pick | ESPN.com
Jeremiyah Love is favored to be the No. 4 pick | Pro Football Talk
NFL players earn $542 million in 2025 performance-based pay: How the process works | The Athletic
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Monday, March 16, 2026
Darius Slay: No team can call me but the Eagles
After he was waived by the Steelers last season and claimed by the Bills, Slay declined to play in Buffalo. But he did go to Philadelphia to watch the Eagles in a playoff game. And he now says the Eagles are the one team he'd consider playing for in 2026.
In a short clip on social media that Slay himself has re-posted, Slay says the Eagles are the only team that can call him.
"No team can call me but Eagles. No team can call me, everybody knows," Slay said.
The 35-year-old Slay may just retire if he doesn't end up on the Eagles, where he previously played from 2020 to 2024. Slay won a Super Bowl ring and was selected to three Pro Bowls while playing for the Eagles. Slay also played for the Lions from 2013 to 2019 and for the Steelers for 10 games last season.
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Sunday, March 15, 2026
Kimi Antonelli takes his first F1 win with victory in China to extend Mercedes' dominant start
SHANGHAI (AP) — He’s been defined by being Lewis Hamilton’s successor and George Russell’s teammate. Now Kimi Antonelli is a Formula 1 race-winner in his own right, and the second-youngest in history.
The 19-year-old Italian pulled clear of an entertaining battle between Russell and the two Ferraris to take a commanding win at the Chinese Grand Prix on Sunday and share the podium with his teammate and Hamilton, the seven-time champion he replaced last year.
It's a vindication of the gamble Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff took in picking the youngster, who'd joined Mercedes' junior program aged just 11, to replace an all-time great when Hamilton moved to Ferrari for 2025. There were plenty of doubters when Antonelli crashed 10 minutes into his practice debut in 2024.
“Many said it was just too early last year, and obviously we asked ourselves that question, whether it was too much to throw him into this pressure cooker," Wolff told Sky Sport Germany.
"One year with ups and downs and he’s young. We have to forgive him these mistakes, and now he’s in the second Grand Prix (of 2026) and brings it home ruthlessly. It’s good.”
The 19-year-old Italian was the youngest pole-position starter and briefly lost the lead to Hamilton at the start but retook it soon after and was in control the rest of the way.
“We did it! We did it!” Antonelli shouted to his team over the radio amid laughs and whoops, and he was holding back tears amid celebrations and a TV interview soon after.
It was another 1-2 finish for Mercedes to start the season as Russell came through a battle with both Ferraris to finish second. Hamilton was third for his long-awaited first Grand Prix podium finish for Ferrari.
The only driver younger than Antonelli to win a Grand Prix was Max Verstappen, who was 18 when he took his first victory in 2016. He's the first Italian to win since Giancarlo Fisichella in 2006.
Russell bests Ferraris in thriller
The new regulations again produced a dramatic fight for position between Mercedes and the fast-starting Ferraris as Russell fought his way past Charles Leclerc and Hamilton in a multi-lap battle with numerous changes of position. That allowed Antonelli to build his lead at the front.
Even after Russell had pulled away to secure second place, teammates Leclerc and Hamilton kept up their own fight for third. “This is quite a fun battle," Leclerc exclaimed over the radio.
Leclerc was fourth with Oliver Bearman fifth for Haas, Pierre Gasly sixth for Alpine and Liam Lawson seventh for Racing Bulls. Isack Hadjar recovered from an early spin to place eighth for Red Bull, ahead of Carlos Sainz, Jr. in ninth for Williams, while Franco Colapinto was 10th for Alpine to score his first point since 2024.
Max Verstappen was running sixth when his car lost power and he had to limp back to the pits in another blow for the four-time champion, who has been a leading critic of F1’s new cars.
Double disaster for McLaren
Formula 1 champion Lando Norris and his McLaren teammate Oscar Piastri were both unable to start after encountering technical problems minutes before the race began.
Piastri was due to start fifth and Norris sixth for Sunday's race. Norris was in his car in the pits but didn't leave for the grid, before Piastri was then withdrawn from the grid.
McLaren said it found “two different electrical problems on the power unit side” after an investigation. It's the second time Piastri has failed to start in 2026 after he crashed before the start of last week's race in Australia. Only 18 of 22 cars took the start, with Audi's Gabriel Bortoleto and Williams' Alex Albon also unable to make it, before both Aston Martin cars and Verstappen hit trouble in the race too.
F1 is racing hours after it announced next month's races in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia will not go ahead because of the war in the Middle East.
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Bengals News (3/15): Keeping the door open for Joe Flacco
Bengals News
Josh Johnson is the new No. 2 quarterback in Cincinnati.
Jake Browning breaks silence on what went wrong with Bengals
Former Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Jake Browning has a new home in NFL free agency.
Jonathan Allen Loves The Fit With Bengals: ‘I Really Think This Team Is Going Somewhere’
Jonathan Allen, one of the NFL’s most accomplished interior pass rushers of the decade, joined the Bengals Friday with 17-month-old daughter Eleanor holding a striped tiger as he signed his two-year deal.
Why Jonathan Allen fits what the Bengals need on Defense
After 48 hours of silence, the Cincinnati Bengals agreed to terms with veteran defensive tackle Jonathan Allen on March 12.
Bengals budget shopping for historic journeyman QB is actually a good thing
An interesting choice to back up Joe Burrow…
NFL News
Giants signing WR Darnell Mooney to one-year deal worth up to $10 million
Veteran wide receiver Darnell Mooney is taking his talents to New York.
Panthers re-sign starting safety Nick Scott to 1-year deal
The Carolina Panthers announced Saturday they re-signed starting safety Nick Scott to a one-year deal.
NFLPA nearing vote on new executive director from three finalists as union faces pivotal moment
David White, JC Tretter and Tim Pernetti are under consideration by the 32-member board
The Nine Biggest Takeaways From the First Wave of NFL Free Agency
The Rams and Ravens are loading up, Tua Tagovailoa has found a safe landing spot, the Cowboys have a clear vision, and more
Jim Irsay’s memorabilia collection nets over $93M at auction
Late Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay’s memorabilia collection brought in $93,656,609 during live auctions from Thursday to Saturday with Christie’s, with online auctions ongoing.
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Saturday, March 14, 2026
Nets’ Josh Minott hoping career night can be first building block for future
The dog days of this season are an extended audition.
The Nets will sift through the tail end of their roster hoping to find somebody — anybody — worth keeping.
Josh Minott? Why not?
In Minott’s longest stint with Brooklyn since being acquired as a trade deadline flier, the springy young forward stated his case eloquently Thursday in Atlanta.
Minott turned in a career night, and flashed the kind of athleticism and force from the wing position that Brooklyn has so sorely lacked — and that fans have called for.
He had 24 points, shot 4-of-7 from deep and 8-of-10 from the foul line. And predictably, he was even better on the other end of the floor, with three blocks and three steals. The points, 3s, free throws and steals all set or tied career bests.
It was a statement for Minott, who has played sparingly since being acquired from Boston on Feb. 5.
“I’ve been waiting on it,” Minott, 23, said of a breakout night. “But at the end of the day, I’m not going to call it pointless — but it’s one goal. So overall, I don’t want to say satisfied, but I’m pretty happy with my performance. But at the end of the day, it’s about getting numbers in the right column.”
Wins will be few and far between for tanking Brooklyn. But they’ll use the stretch run to mine the back end of their roster. There are two-ways to evaluate. Ten-day contracts like newcomer Malachi Smith to assess. And team options to decide on.
Such as Minott.
His six stocks — combined blocks and steals — on Thursday tied Nic Claxton’s Dec. 29 effort as the most by a Net this season. Minott’s near 7-foot wingspan lets him disrupt passing lanes and his athleticism allows him to attack the rim.
“Yeah, he had (a dunk) against the Celtics that was very impressive, and he had one the other day (vs. Detroit). Obviously I didn’t teach him to do that,” joked Jordi Fernández. “What you see is how quick he gets there and you’re like, ‘Oh wow, he’s going to do it.’ And he does it. And everybody’s reaction is pretty cool.
“So, (I’m) excited for him. … The thing that stood out is we’re asking him to pressure the ball, to pick up full court, and he did an amazing job. He’s trying to do everything we ask him to. You see the size. He’s going to let it fly. Those things are positive. So I’m excited to watch him play.”
Minott began the season in the Celtics’ rotation only to see an ankle injury cost him five weeks and momentum in Boston.
After the Nets got him for cash at the trade deadline — $110,000, sources told the Post — and he spent time settling in, now injuries could open the door for Minott in Brooklyn. Day’Ron Sharpe is out for the season, Ziaire Williams has been sick, and there are minutes to be had. Minott made the most of his against the Hawks.
“(It was) just teammates finding me on my cuts when I was open. I owe basically everything to them. I didn’t really do anything that didn’t involve them finding me. So I’d say that’s kind of just what happened,” said Minott.
“Just trying to keep the same rhythm. I understand that they had a rhythm before me, and just not trying to ruin that. I’m just trying to come in, just find a way I can affect the game and just trying to uphold the team and lift the team and its values.”
Fernáandez added “Yeah, it was great. He was aggressive. … He is (a rebounder), he provides size, so good job.”
Grant Nelson, who saw his 10-day expire, returns to Long Island. But sources told The Post he’ll miss the rest of the G-League season with patellar tendinitis. It likely explains why he didn’t get another 10-day after acquitting himself well.
Brooklyn agreed to a 10-day with Smith, per Hoopshype. He averaged 14.4 points, 5.6 assists and 4.5 rebounds with Long Island, shooting 42 percent from 3.
Claxton (rest) and Drake Powell (left knee injury management) are out for the Nets Saturday, while Sharpe and Egor Dëmin are out for the season. Michael Porter Jr. is doubtful vs. the 76ers with a sprained right ankle and Ochai Agbaji (sore left ankle) is probable.
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