{"id":870744,"date":"2026-08-27T22:32:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T22:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/870744\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T22:32:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T22:32:16","slug":"giants-place-wr-calvin-austin-on-injured-reserve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/870744\/","title":{"rendered":"Giants place WR Calvin Austin on injured reserve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Giants officially ended Calvin Austin\u2019s season on Thursday by placing the wide receiver on injured reserve.<\/p>\n<p>Austin tore the ACL in his right knee while running a route at Tuesday\u2019s training camp practice. He was carted off the field.<\/p>\n<p>He signed a one-year deal with the Giants in the offseason after spending his first four seasons with the Steelers. He totaled 31 catches for 372 yards and three touchdowns last season.<\/p>\n<p>The loss of Austin, who was expected to have a big role as the slot receiver, improves Odell Beckham Jr.&#8217;s chances of making the 53-player roster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Giants officially ended Calvin Austin\u2019s season on Thursday by placing the wide receiver on injured reserve. Austin&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":870745,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-870744","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\/870744","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=870744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/870745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=870744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=870744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=870744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}