{"id":214065,"date":"2026-04-29T14:13:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T14:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/214065\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T14:13:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T14:13:09","slug":"ny-giants-news-new-york-begins-adding-veteran-defensive-tackles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/214065\/","title":{"rendered":"NY Giants news: New York begins adding veteran defensive tackles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Veteran defensive tackle Shelby Harris is <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AaronWilson_NFL\/status\/2049477543279931769\" rel=\"nofollow\">signing with the New York Giants<\/a>. The news was first reported on Wednesday by veteran NFL insider Aaron Wilson, and was subsequently confirmed by the Giants.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Coming out of the 2026 NFL Draft having only added sixth-round pick Bobby Jamison-Travis to their defensive tackle room, the Giants were widely expected to add one or more veteran defensive tackles in free agency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Harris, 35, will be entering his 12th NFL season after being a seventh-round pick by the Oakland Raiders in the 2014 NFL Draft.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Harris has played for Oakland, the Denver Broncos, Seattle Seahawks, and spent the last three seasons with the Cleveland Browns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Harris visited the Giants a few weeks before the draft.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Harris played all 17 games for the Browns last season with 32 tackles, a sack, and four passes defensed in 509 defensive snaps.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Giants are likely not done adding to the defensive tackle position. They have been heavily linked to veteran nose tackle D.J. Reader, and recently had a visit from Bonito Jones, as well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">A decision on whether or not to bring Odell Beckham back to New York is also looming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Veteran defensive tackle Shelby Harris is signing with the New York Giants. The news was first reported on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173584,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,46824,8144,11,10],"class_list":["post-214065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-giants-free-agency","tag-new-york-giants-news","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214065","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=214065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}