Defensive end Jason Pierre-Paul returned to the Buccaneers late last season and he wouldn’t mind another trip down memory lane.
Pierre-Paul addressed a post on X.com to the Giants letting them know he’s interested in continuing to play. The Giants drafted Pierre-Paul 15th overall in 2010 and employed him for his first eight seasons in the NFL.
“I’m still available and ready to take on some OT’s and dominate in run-stop football the GIANTS WAY,” Pierre-Paul wrote. “Let’s make it happen, Giant Fans, Giant Nation Let’s go!! I know I know I know.”
Pierre-Paul won a Super Bowl with the Giants and another in his first four-year stint with the Bucs. He then played for new Giants head coach John Harbaugh with the Ravens in 2022, played sparingly for the Saints and Dolphins in 2023 and then saw action in three games for Tampa last year after sitting out the 2024 season.
Pierre-Paul is not the only former Giant and Raven to come up in conjunction with a possible Harbaugh reunion this week. Wide receiver Odell Beckham is looking to return to the league and Harbaugh said he’s open to the idea on Monday.
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The Commanders signed defensive tackle D.J. Davidson, the team announced Tuesday.
Davidson, 26, spent his first four seasons with the Giants after they made him a fifth-round pick.
In 2025, Davidson played 256 defensive snaps and 139 on special teams in 15 games. He totaled nine tackles and a pass defensed.
Davidson missed the final two games of last season with a neck injury.
In his career, he has played 47 games with four starts, seeing action on 806 defensive snaps and 403 on special teams. He has recorded 49 tackles, 2.5 sacks, three quarterback hits and three passes defensed.
Odell Beckham wants to continue his NFL career.
The former Pro Bowl wide receiver recently said he hopes his participation in flag football is a springboard for another NFL opportunity after sitting out last season.
Beckham played for the Giants in his first five seasons, and he played for coach John Harbaugh in Baltimore in 2023. Could a reunion with Harbaugh with the Giants be in Beckham’s future?
Harbaugh isn’t ruling it out.
“The obvious, pad answer would be you look at every option, right?” Harbaugh said Monday, via SNY. “And if Odell’s an option, then we’ll be looking at it for sure. And he and I do talk; we do text. We’ve maintained a really great relationship. He’s one of my very favorite people in the world, so it’s not like you don’t talk to guys about things like that, and certainly we have. We’ll just have to see where it all goes, what’s best for him, what’s best for the Giants. That’s the number one thing, is what’s best for our team. Any player, if he helps you be a better team and can make you better, then you’re going to pursue that, but we’ll have to see where that goes.”
Beckham’s last game came on Dec. 8, 2024.
His last 1,000-yard season came in 2019, and his last Pro Bowl was in 2016.
John Harbaugh was fired as coach of the Ravens after going 8-9 last season, but he doesn’t think that record reflects the reality of the job he and his staff did.
Harbaugh, now head coach of the Giants, said on Pardon My Take that he thinks the Ravens’ staff was as good as ever in 2025.
“I took a lot of pride in what we did,” Harbaugh said. “I took a lot of pride in this season. I thought, honestly, as a coaching staff, it might have been our best job this year coaching this team. I thought we did a great job. But it wasn’t good enough in terms of getting us where we needed to get for whatever reason.”
Still, Harbaugh says he has no hard feelings for the Ravens firing him.
“If the job’s not getting done, it’s not good enough, they’ll make a change,” Harbaugh said. “I really wasn’t worried about it ever, keeping the job. I felt like at some point in time if they felt like I wasn’t the best guy for the job to do the job then they’re going to put me out of a job, and that’s what they should do if they feel that way.”
Harbaugh said that his agent told him within 20 minutes of the Ravens firing him that multiple teams had called to express their interest. The Giants were first on the list, and now Harbaugh will try to do his best coaching job with the Giants.
The Giants are releasing kicker Graham Gano, Connor Hughes of SNY reports.
The move was expected after the Giants signed veteran kicker Jason Sanders and will save the team $4.5 million in salary cap space.
The Giants also have Ben Sauls on the roster at the position.
Gano, who turns 39 next month, spent the past six seasons with the Giants. However, he played only 23 games the past three seasons because of injuries.
In five games last season, he went 9-of-10 on field goals and made all nine extra points.
Gano made 87.4 percent of his field goals and 96.2 percent of his PATs in the 73 games he played with the Giants.
As the NFL gathers in Arizona for its 2026 annual meeting, one name is bound to come up, at some point.
Nearly two months ago, Giants co-owner Steve Tisch was linked to Jeffrey Epstein in the most recent release of the so-called Epstein files. From the contents and timing of the messages (after Epstein was first convicted) and subsequent reporting that possibly illustrates one of the dates arranged by Epstein for Tisch, the NFL has said as little as possible, and apparently done even less.
On February 2, Commissioner Roger Goodell said at his Super Bowl-week press conference: “Let’s get the facts first.”
Subsequent requests for comment to the league have been met with reference to Goodell’s remarks, despite intervening developments. There’s no indication that the NFL has investigated the matter, or that it is even inclined to do so.
Meanwhile, others in the NFL ecosystem have not been quiet. As one high-level employee from another team told PFT in late February, “Steve has to go.”
The news that Tisch and his siblings want to transfer their Giants equity into their children’s trusts seemed to be, on the surface, an easy off-ramp for the NFL. However, Tisch reportedly will remain the chairman of the Giants’ board, even after he surrenders his ownership stake in the team.
Is that enough for the NFL? Again, his name is bound to come up, at some point, during the first ownership meeting since the news of the Tisch-Epstein connection first broke. Especially in light of recent reporting from Vimal Patel of the New York Times regarding the efforts to remove the names of various Epstein associates from buildings on university campuses.
Last month, Front Office Sports reported that Tufts University is “monitoring the situation” involving Tisch, given that the school opened the Steve Tisch Sports and Fitness Center, a 42,000-square-foot athletic facility, in 2012. Via Patel, the Tufts student newspaper has since called for the university to remove Tisch’s name from campus buildings, in order to “preserve the university’s commitment to ethical, honest and principled civic engagement.” The university publication noted that, in 2019, Tufts removed the name of the Sackler family from its medical school, given its role in the opioid epidemic.
What will the NFL do about Tisch? Will it investigate his full and complete ties to Epstein, along with the specific question of whether Tisch used his status as a film producer for potential quid pro quo liaisons brokered by Epstein? Or will it continue to do nothing and say nothing, hopeful that Tisch handing his chunk of the team to his children will be enough to get people to stop saying that something (an investigation, at a minimum) should be done?
It all comes back to the basic question of whether there’s a double standard for players and owners. The league insists the bar is higher for the owners. Reality suggests it is lower.
Former Ohio State linebacker Sonny Styles is generally regarded as one of the top prospects in this year’s draft, but his position has led some to wonder just how high he’ll go when the first round gets underway next month.
Off-ball linebackers don’t tend to be among the first picks, but Styles believes he brings more to the table than others. During an appearance on Up & Adams, Styles was asked about comparisons to Ravens safety Kyle Hamilton — Styles was a safety when he got to college — and said he hopes to be used as the same kind of versatile piece that Hamilton has been in Baltimore.
“It just depends what coordinator you go to, what scheme you go to,” Styles said. “Kyle Hamilton is one of those guys that can do a lot all over the field. He’s an amazing player. So, I’d love to be in a scheme where I can do multiple roles and help a defense win. I think what’s nice is when you have a coordinator who’s able to put you in so many different positions and utilize you in that way, it’s helping the entire defense because you become more unpredictable when there’s guys like that on your defense who can do so many different things.”
Hamilton’s rise to All-Pro status came under John Harbaugh, who became the head coach of the Giants after being dismissed by the Ravens in January. The Giants hold the fifth overall pick and Styles could become part of Harbaugh’s plan to turn the franchise around in his first season in his new job.
Ohio State wide receiver Carnell Tate ran a 4.52-second 40-yard dash at the Scouting Combine. The time is not expected to hurt his draft status as a top-10 pick.
That’s why he decided not to run at Ohio State’s Pro Day on Wednesday, saying no teams have questioned him about his speed.
Instead, Tate did only position drills, catching passes from Julian Sayin.
“I definitely think it can be overvalued,” Tate said of the 40-yard dash, via Daniel Oyefusi of TheAthletic.com. “Like a couple of great NFL receivers right now like Puka [Nacua] and Jaxon [Smith-Njigba] like they probably didn’t run the fastest of times, but they’re the two best receivers in the league right now. It just depends on who’s looking at it and how y’all want to take it.”
Tate said he has top-30 draft visits scheduled with the Titans, Saints, Commanders, Giants and Chiefs. He has already visited the Browns. All of those teams draft in the top nine, with the Titans holding the fourth overall pick.
The NFL’s Coach of the Year award often goes to a new coach who turns around a previously struggling franchise. John Harbaugh has a chance to do that this year with the Giants.
Harbaugh is currently the betting favorite to win the NFL Coach of the Year award, with +500 odds.
The Giants may only need a good season, not a great season, for Harbaugh to win the award, because it’s been so lon since a Giants coach was even good. Brian Daboll was fired during last season with a 20-40-1 record. His predecessor, Joe Judge, went 10-23. Before Judge was Pat Shurmur, who went 9-23, and before Shurmur, Ben McAdoo went 13-15. Throw in interim head coaches Steve Spagnuolo and Mike Kafka, who also had losing records during their brief stints with the Giants, and all six Giants coaches since Tom Coughlin have departed with losing records.
Given that track record of Giants coaches, Harbaugh might win Coach of the Year if he goes 9-8.
After Harbaugh, the coach with the next-best odds to win Coach of the Year is his successor in Baltimore, Jesse Mintoer, at +800. He’s followed by Titans coach Robert Saleh at +1000, Saints coach Kellen Moore at +1200, Bills coach Joe Brady at +1200 and Steelers coach Mike McCarthy at +1200.
Linebacker Cam Jones is set to change locker rooms at MetLife Stadium in 2026.
According to multiple reports, Jones has agreed to terms with the Giants. Jones spent last season with the Jets.
Aaron Wilson of KPRC reports that Jones will be signing a one-year deal with the NFC East team.
Jones played in 10 games for the Jets and saw almost all of his playing time on special teams. That was also the case when Jones was with the Chiefs during the 2023 and 2024 seasons.
Jones appeared in 44 games across the two stops and has been credited with 41 career tackles.
