{"id":182377,"date":"2026-04-01T17:27:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T17:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/182377\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T17:27:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T17:27:06","slug":"new-york-giants-isaiah-likely-will-wear-jersey-no-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/182377\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Giants&#8217; Isaiah Likely will wear jersey No. 9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>April 1, 2026, 1:00 p.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The New York Giants haven&#8217;t formally announced their uniform numbers for the upcoming 2026 NFL season, but some of the newer players are already staking claim to jersey numbers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Such is the case for free agent tight end Isaiah Likely, whom the Giants inked to a three-year, $40 million deal three weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Likely, who played his first four NFL seasons with the Baltimore Ravens, wore No. 80, but as a Giant, he&#8217;s changing his look.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Likely recently posted on his IG account that he will be wearing No. 9 this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">No. 9 was most recently worn by veteran placekicker Graham Gano, who was waived with a &#8220;failed physical&#8221; by the Giants on March 30.<\/p>\n<p>Expert NFL picks: <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":body nav (nfl)|e|auto spike click:5|\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<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The team&#8217;s website also lists No. 9 as being assigned to wide receiver Ryan Miller, whom the Giants picked up on waivers from Tampa Bay last December.<\/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\/04\/1775064426_703_86373428007-square-1.jpg\" data-gl- decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"April 1, 2026, 1:00 p.m. ET The New York Giants haven&#8217;t formally announced their uniform numbers for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182378,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[679,9,11,10,1941,1942,948,18996,18951,65348,950,932,691,38726,16791,949,682],"class_list":{"0":"post-182377","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-headlines","11":"tag-new-york-news","12":"tag-sstssportsnflgiants","13":"tag-sstsngiants","14":"tag-tagamerican-football","15":"tag-taggraham-gano","16":"tag-taginstagram","17":"tag-tagisaiah-likely","18":"tag-tagnational-sports","19":"tag-tagnfl","20":"tag-tagoverall-neutral","21":"tag-tagryan-miller","22":"tag-tagsports-fan-gear-apparel","23":"tag-tagsports-news","24":"tag-typestory"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182377","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=182377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}