{"id":156110,"date":"2026-03-07T10:41:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T10:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/156110\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T10:41:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T10:41:07","slug":"new-york-giants-release-veteran-ol-james-hudson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/156110\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Giants release veteran OL James Hudson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>March 7, 2026, 5:07 a.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/new-york-giants\/351\" data-autotag=\"9402befb-12da-4b26-905a-81ab1fea0850\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">New York Giants<\/a>, in an expected move, released veteran offensive lineman James Hudson III on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Hudson, who was signed by the Giants to a two-year, $12 million deal last March as a depth piece at offensive tackle, imploded in the Week 2 loss against Dallas, getting flagged four times in six snaps on a single drive, and became the first player since at least 2000 to be flagged four times on one drive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Hudson played just one offensive snap the rest of the season, a telling sign of how low he had fallen in the eyes of the club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Hudson&#8217;s release will free up $5.38 million in salary cap space.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"gnt_em_cp_cw_i\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" data-gl-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1772880067_702_86373428007-square-1.jpg\" data-gl- decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\"\/>Expert NFL picks: <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":body nav (nfl)|e|auto spike click:6|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_sp_a\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/picks\">Exclusive betting insights only at USA TODAY.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"March 7, 2026, 5:07 a.m. ET The New York Giants, in an expected move, released veteran offensive lineman&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156111,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[679,9,11,10,1941,1942,948,23929,930,947,1047,949,682],"class_list":["post-156110","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-tagjames-hudson-iii","tag-tagnew-york-giants","tag-tagnfl-hub","tag-tagoverall-negative","tag-tagsports-news","tag-typestory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156110","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=156110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}