The Giants opened up two spots on their 90-player roster ahead of training camp.
Linebacker Cam Jones and defensive lineman C.J. Ravenell were both waived.
Jones signed with the Giants in March but missed time during offseason workouts with what coach John Harbaugh described as an injury he suffered while moving boxes into his new home. Jones spent last season with the Jets, appearing in 10 games, and had played in all 17 games each of the two previous seasons with the Chiefs. He primarily plays on special teams.
Although there’s no word on any box-moving injuries, Ravenell was waived with a Non-Football Injury designation. He previously played for Harbaugh on the Ravens in 2024, and spent 2025 on the Titans.
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Wide receiver Malik Nabers avoided the physically unable to perform list to open Giants training camp, but three of his teammates were less fortunate.
The team announced that defensive lineman Roy Robertson-Harris, tight end Thomas Fidone, and defensive lineman Sam Roberts were all placed on the list.
All three players can be activated at any point during camp, but it will be some time before Robertson-Harris is ready to play. He tore his Achilles during the team’s offseason program, so the move to PUP as opposed to injured reserve keeps some hope alive that he can return during the season.
Giants rookies reported to training camp on Thursday. The full squad is due to report to the Greenbrier in West Virginia on July 28.
The question remains about when Malik Nabers will return from rehab on his right knee, with the Giants hopeful he can play the season opener against the Cowboys. The Giants wide receiver, though, is expected to avoid the active/physically unable to perform list to start camp, Jordan Raanan of ESPN reports.
The Giants surely will be deliberate in Nabers’ return, but all eyes will be on him during training camp.
Nabers tore the ACL in his right knee in Week 4 against the Chargers and underwent surgery Oct. 28. He required a second surgery this offseason to remove scar tissue after Nabers experienced stiffness.
Coach John Harbaugh has said that Nabers’ knee injury was “not simple.”
The 2024 first-round pick totaled 18 receptions for 271 yards and two touchdowns last season.
Giants running back Cam Skattebo was tempting fate when he decided to do a backflip at Fanatics Fest over the weekend.
But his head coach didn’t see that action as too big of a deal, as he detailed in an interview with the Bleav in Giants podcast.
“My reaction was — I haven’t talked to him yet, I’m going to talk to him I’m sure. My reaction was this: Dude, at least stick it. I mean, land the thing if you’re going to do it, you know?” Harbaugh said with a laugh. “That was my first reaction.
“But Skat’s going to be ready to go. He’s been working super hard. He has really been training like crazy. And his mind is on camp. He’s healthy, he’s ready to roll, and I can’t wait to see him out there at practice.”
Skattebo suffered a dislocated ankle midway through last season, but should be ready to make an impact on the field in his second season. Giants rookies report to training camp on Thursday, with veterans reporting on July 28.
The NFL Players Association released its annual Rising Stars list on Tuesday and the first overall pick of this year’s draft is one of the players at the top.
Raiders quarterback Fernando Mendoza is No. 1 on the list of the 10 rookies that the NFLPA projects to be future members of the Top 50 list of licensed player product sales. There is also a list of 10 players with NFL experience who have not been on the Top 50 and it is topped by Saints quarterback Tyler Shough.
Mendoza is followed on the list by Cowboys safety Caleb Downs, Cardinals running back Jeremiyah Love, Titans wide receiver Carnell Tate, Eagles wide receiver Makai Lemon, Commanders linebacker Sonny Styles, Saints wide receiver Jordyn Tyson, Giants linebacker Arvell Reese, Ravens wide receiver Ja’Kobi Lane, and Buccaneers edge rusher Rueben Bain.
The list of veteran players also includes Bears tight end Colston Loveland, Raiders tight end Brock Bowers, Chiefs running back Kenneth Walker, Panthers wide receiver Tetairoa McMillan, Buccaneers wide receiver Emeka Egbuka, Cardinals tight end Trey McBride, Dolphins running back De’Von Achane, Bills running back James Cook, and Patriots cornerback Christian Gonzalez.
Giants running back Cam Skattebo attempted to show that his ankle is healed by attempting to perform a backflip on Saturday at Fanatics Fest. Skattebo did not stick the landing.
On Sunday, Skattebo and Giants quarterback Jaxson Dart appeared on a special episode of The Fantasy Footballers from SiriusXM. Skattebo addressed his Saturday shenanigans.
“I mean, so I’ve been doing backflips since I was like four years old,” Skattebo said. “So it’s natural to me. I’m gonna address the elephant. I will not hurt myself before the season. . . .”
He then explained his pratfall.
“So what happened was, I don’t know if you guys know WWE or not, those floors are bouncy,” Skattebo said. “So when I took off, I was mid-air, like, ‘Holy cow, I’m not gonna land this, I’m way too high.’ Landed, but it had too much cushion. It wasn’t a stiff, firm ground. So that’s why I kinda like went back, safely landed, got back up, was good to go. So nothing came out from that. I’m perfectly fine. Nothing happened. We’re good.”
Some would say it’s not good that Skattebo unnecessarily put himself at risk.
He also was asked whether he enjoys being regarded as a “wild maniac.”
“I totally enjoy that part,” Skattebo said. “I think I less enjoy the ‘brain-dead kind of guy.’ But it is what it is. I mean, the New York people love it, so I’m just gonna keep being me. And if they wanna say I’m brain-dead and I don’t have no brain, then who cares? Fuck it, you know?”
(Nothing says you have a brain more than saying, “I don’t have no brain.”)
Back in March, Skattebo made waves by claiming that CTE, and asthma, aren’t real. He later apologized for his “tasteless joke.”
For some football players, the attitude that makes them great on the field can tempt them to do dumb things off the field.
Case in point: Giants running back Cam Skattebo.
In November, not long after he suffered a season-ending ankle injury, he was pushing and shoving at a WWE event. Now that his ankle has healed, Skattebo wanted to prove it during an appearance at Fanatics Fest.
After pulling up the leg of his pants to expose the ankle that had been dislocated (along with a tibia fracture), Skattebo did a backflip. He didn’t stick the landing.
Skattebo stumbled backward and fell, before springing up and acting like he meant to do that.
As many have suggested, Giants coach John Harbaugh may not be thrilled when he sees the video. And while some have pointed out that Harbaugh once yelled at quarterback Joe Flacco for riding a skateboard during the playoff run that resulted in a Ravens Super Bowl win, it wasn’t Harbaugh — it was former G.M. Ozzie Newsome.
Regardless, it’s a valid concern. Even if Skattebo will eventually be taking much greater risks with his health when it’s time to get hit and tackled, there’s no reason to add to the risks by doing other things that could result in an injury.
As Buddy Ryan said when he became the head coach of the Arizona Cardinals in 1994, “You’ve got a winner in town.” (Of course, that winner continued to be the visiting team.)
For folks in New York City, it’ll be an invading team. On Wednesday, the Bills announced their 23-affiliate radio network for 2026. And the collection of stations includes ESPN New York — smack dab in the middle of the market belonging to the New York Jets. (And the New York Giants.)
Since the 2017 season, the Jets and Giants have combined for one playoff appearance. In that same time period, the Bills have been to the playoffs eight times.
And the Bills aren’t encroaching only on turf belonging to the Jets and Giants. Buffalo games will be aired by ESPN West Palm, roughly 70 miles from Miami. (The Dolphins have had two playoff appearances since 2017.)
It’s a bold move. But the Bills have a following that justifies radio broadcasts far from the site of their new stadium. And if the Jets, Giants, and Dolphins don’t like it, they should perform well enough that folks in or near their markets will choose to listen to their games and not to Bills games.
Or they could go full-blown spite store and find radio affiliates in Buffalo. But who in Buffalo would listen to those games? In New York City, plenty of folks likely will.
Besides, the Bills are the only NFL franchise that plays its games in New York. Why not have their radio broadcasts available in New York, New York?
When it comes to the NFL’s effort to send the Brian Flores case to arbitration, it’s apparently not over until the NFL says it’s over.
Regardless, the presiding judge has now made it abundantly clear that it’s over.
Despite a court ruling and an appeals court ruling that the claims brought by Brian Flores (against the Dolphins, Giants, Broncos, and Texans), Ray Horton (against the Titans), and Steve Wilks (against the Cardinals) must be decided in court, the NFL filed a motion to reconsider the ruling that slammed the door on arbitration.
On Wednesday, Judge Valerie Caproni denied the NFL’s latest motion.
The 15-page ruling begins with an expression of exasperation regarding the nearly four-and-a-half-year-old litigation: “This case continues to linger at the starting block. Or, to use a more fitting metaphor, this case continues to linger as the teams mill about in the players’ tunnels.”
Elsewhere in the written decision, there are some not-so-subtle indications of the judge’s impatience with the NFL’s efforts to keep fighting over a settled issue. From page 9: “Defendants can articulate no reason why these arguments were not raised in their response to Plaintiffs’ Motion for Reconsideration. . . . With sophisticated law firms, it is hard to fathom a plausible explanation.”
Also, from the same page: “Defendants opted for an iterative stream of arguments to buy themselves a few more months hanging out in the players’ tunnels. . . .”
Putting it another way, and as a judge said to the opposing lawyer in a case I was handling more than 20 years ago, “At some point, you stop arguing to the court and start arguing with the court.”
Judge Caproni’s order concludes like this: “Defendants’ seemingly-never-ending list of arguments why they should not have to litigate this case has run its course. Stepping back, while Defendants are free to spend endless attorneys’ fees to pursue the forum they think will be most advantageous to them, arguments about the superior efficiencies of arbitration ring hollow. . . . Instead of proceeding, discovery and motion practice for these three teams have been further delayed so this Court can deal with these teams’ attempt to take yet another run at how to avoid district court litigation and will, presumably, be delayed further while they pursue yet another appeal.”
It’s a mostly tactful way of saying to the NFL, “Enough. You’ve lost on this issue. Stop asking for arbitration and get to work on defending yourself in the litigation.”
Attorney Doug Wigdor issues a statement regarding the latest decision.
“At this point, the NFL and its teams have lost on this issue at the Second Circuit, were denied en banc review by the Second Circuit, were denied Supreme Court review and have now had the District Court twice confirm that the claims will not proceed in an NFL-controlled forum,” Wigdor said. “We hope the NFL and its teams will accept these rulings and proceed with the litigation.”
Presumably, that will happen. One of these days. Or, more accurately, one of these years.
When the Giants drafted Arvell Reese with the fifth overall pick in April, there were questions about where Reese will line up after playing on the edge and at off-ball linebacker while at Ohio State.
The Giants already had Brian Burns, Abdul Carter and Kayvon Thibodeaux as options off the edge and trade chatter involving Thibodeaux never amounted to anything, so Reese is set to start alongside Tremaine Edmunds at linebacker. Burns said recently that the five players “all look the same” and are capable of rushing the passer or dropping into coverage, which he believes will create problems for the offenses trying to stop them.
“It’s not going to be simple for an offense to read or understand exactly what we’re doing, and that’s the beauty in defense in my opinion,” Burns said, via the team’s website. “And on top of that, you have world-class athletes at our size that can move around and do a lot of different things. I just feel like it’s going to be organized chaos.”
Defensive coordinator Dennard Wilson will have to come up with the right way to deploy the quintet of players this fall, but that’s likely something that Burns would call a good problem for the Giants to have after being shorthanded on defense in recent seasons.
