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Jordan RaananSep 8, 2025, 04:05 AM<\/p>\n
Close<\/a>Jordan Raanan covers the New York Giants for ESPN and can be heard hosting on ESPN Radio. Raanan joined ESPN in 2016.<\/p>\n New York Giants<\/a> starting linebacker Micah McFadden<\/a> was carted off the field and ruled out with a leg\/foot injury suffered in the first quarter of Sunday’s season opener against the Washington Commanders<\/a>.<\/p>\n McFadden was injured while making a tackle on Commanders quarterback Jayden Daniels<\/a>. His right leg was placed in an air cast, and he was taken off the field on a cart. He waved to the crowd as he exited to gracious applause.<\/p>\n McFadden was replaced by second-year linebacker Darius Muasau<\/a>. The Commanders immediately took advantage, finding tight end Zach Ertz<\/a> matched against Muasau for a touchdown on the very next play.<\/p>\n The Giants originally selected McFadden in the fifth round of the 2022 NFL draft. He became a full-time starter in 2023.<\/p>\n McFadden had started 14 games each of the previous two seasons. He racked up over 100 tackles each of those years, including a career high 107 last season.<\/p>\n This was supposed to be a big year for McFadden with his rookie deal set to expire at the end of the season. He said he wasn’t focused on a new contract, but instead putting together a good season.<\/p>\n “I think there’s a lot of things that I can focus on to get better,” he said at the beginning of the summer. “There hasn’t been anything yet [with the contract] and I’m just focused on what we’re doing right now.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jordan RaananSep 8, 2025, 04:05 AM CloseJordan Raanan covers the New York Giants for ESPN and can be…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126085,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-126084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Giants linebacker Micah McFadden, who had a career-high 107 tackles last season, was carted off in New York’s opener with a leg\/foot injury.\u00a0Peter Casey-Imagn Images<\/p>\n