{"id":163725,"date":"2026-03-15T03:41:31","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T03:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/163725\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T03:41:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T03:41:31","slug":"giants-re-sign-linebacker-zaire-barnes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/163725\/","title":{"rendered":"Giants re-sign linebacker Zaire Barnes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Giants have re-signed linebacker Zaire Barnes, who was a restricted free agent.<\/p>\n<p>Barnes played 11 games for the Giants last season. He made one start on Monday Night Football in Week 13 at New England, where he had a game-high 13 tackles and a sack. He also logged two special teams tackles in that game as part of 13 on the season.<\/p>\n<p>Originally a sixth-round draft pick by the Jets in 2023, the 6-foot-1, 232-pounder played four games as a rookie and missed the entire following season with an ankle injury.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to the NFL, Barnes played four seasons at Western Michigan and picked up first-team All-MAC honors as a senior.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York Giants have re-signed linebacker Zaire Barnes, who was a restricted free agent. Barnes played 11&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163726,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[63836,2468,9,11,10,42567],"class_list":["post-163725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-2026-free-agency","tag-homepage","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-roster-transactions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163725","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=163725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}