{"id":209175,"date":"2026-04-25T02:49:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T02:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/209175\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T02:49:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T02:49:13","slug":"giants-trade-into-third-round-of-2026-nfl-draft-to-select-notre-dames-malachi-fields","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/209175\/","title":{"rendered":"Giants trade into third round of 2026 NFL Draft to select Notre Dame&#8217;s Malachi Fields"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Giants went into this draft without a third round pick, dealing it away last year in the trade up for quarterback Jaxson Dart. <\/p>\n<p>They made a move Friday night to gain a third rounder and get Dart some help. <\/p>\n<p>To get up to No. 74 overall, the Giants sent their fourth-round pick (No. 105), their fifth-round pick (No. 154) and a 2027 fourth-round pick to the Browns to get in position to select wide receiver Malachi Fields.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u201cCertainly a different body type than we currently have,\u2019\u2019 general manager Joe Schoen said.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39193323\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/GettyImages-2251899132.jpg\" alt=\"Malachi Fields #0 of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish carries the ball during the second half against the Pittsburgh Panthers\" class=\"wp-image-39193323\"  \/>Malachi Fields #0 of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish carries the ball during the second half against the Pittsburgh Panthers. Diamond Images\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Indeed, Fields is 6-foot-4 and 218 pounds and is a big target for Dart.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u201cWe felt for us maybe a second round value,\u2019\u2019 coach John Harbaugh said. \u201cWe wanted this player and we got him.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Giants went into this draft without a third round pick, dealing it away last year in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209176,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,2683,11,10,22,12258,46065,33421,319],"class_list":["post-209175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-giants","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-nfl","tag-nfl-draft","tag-nfl-draft-2026","tag-notre-dame-fighting-irish","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209175","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=209175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}