{"id":152367,"date":"2026-03-04T13:48:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T13:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/152367\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T13:48:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T13:48:06","slug":"giants-micah-mcfadden-expects-to-sign-a-one-year-prove-it-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/152367\/","title":{"rendered":"Giants’ Micah McFadden expects to sign a one-year, prove-it deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

March 4, 2026, 8:01 a.m. ET<\/p>\n

New York Giants<\/a> inside linebacker Micah McFadden is not chasing a lucrative new deal in free agency this offseason.<\/p>\n

Art Stapleton of USA TODAY reports that McFadden is committed to proving himself on a one-year deal after suffering a season-ending foot injury in Week 1 of the 2025 season.<\/p>\n

McFadden was sidelined for the remaining 16 games last season after injuring his foot in the Giants\u2019 21-6 loss to the Washington Commanders on September 7, 2025. He is coming off the four-year, $4.01 million rookie contract he signed with the Giants in 2022.<\/p>\n

The Florida native became a full-time starter for New York in 2023, starting all 14 games he played that season. McFadden recorded 4.0 sacks, one interception, and six passes defensed combined from 2023 to 2024.<\/p>\n

The Giants had roughly $2 million in salary cap space entering the offseason. However, New York released defensive captain Bobby Okereke on Tuesday, reducing the team’s depth at inside linebacker while saving $9 million in cap space.<\/p>\n

Expert NFL picks: Exclusive betting insights only at USA TODAY.<\/a>\"\"\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"March 4, 2026, 8:01 a.m. ET New York Giants inside linebacker Micah McFadden is not chasing a lucrative…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152368,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[679,9,11,10,1941,1942,948,52301,950,930,932,947,691,949,682],"class_list":["post-152367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-accessfree","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-sstssportsnflgiants","tag-sstsngiants","tag-tagamerican-football","tag-tagmicah-mcfadden","tag-tagnational-sports","tag-tagnew-york-giants","tag-tagnfl","tag-tagnfl-hub","tag-tagoverall-neutral","tag-tagsports-news","tag-typestory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}