{"id":214942,"date":"2026-04-30T01:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T01:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/214942\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T01:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T01:58:08","slug":"ny-giants-news-new-york-signs-another-defensive-tackle-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/214942\/","title":{"rendered":"NY Giants news: New York signs another defensive tackle"},"content":{"rendered":"

The New York Giants<\/a> are signing veteran defensive tackle Leki Fotu to a one-year contract, a move first reported by Jordan Schultz<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Fotu is the second defensive tackle the Giants<\/a> agree to a deal with on Wednesday. Earlier in the day, they added 11-year veteran Shelby Harris<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Fotu, 6-foot-5, 317 pounds, is a 27-year-old originally drafted in the fourth round of the 202 NFL Draft by the Arizona Cardinals<\/a>. Fotu spent four seasons with the Cardinals, and has played for the New York Jets<\/a>, Las Vegas Raiders, and Houston Texans<\/a> over the past two seasons.<\/p>\n

Fotu has 26 starts in 66 career regular-season games. He is a run defender with just 4,5 career sacks.<\/p>\n

In eight games last season with the Raiders and Texans, Fotu played 193 snaps. His career-high in snaps came in 2022, when he played 499 defensive snaps for Arizona.<\/p>\n

Neither Fotu nor Harris are true nose tackles. The Giants selected nose tackle Bobby Jamison-Travis in the sixth round of the draft, but expecting Jamison-Travis to fill Dexter<\/a> Lawrence\u2019s shoes would be an unfair ask.<\/p>\n

The Giants have been in pursuit of veteran free agent nose tackle D.J. Reader<\/a>, but New York reportedly has competition for the 31-year-old 10-year veteran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York Giants are signing veteran defensive tackle Leki Fotu to a one-year contract, a move first…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214943,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[835,57939,84844,4084,2677,84843,9,2683,11,430,10,22654,84466,3918],"class_list":["post-214942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-arizona-cardinals","tag-defensive-tackle","tag-dexter","tag-giants","tag-houston-texans","tag-leki-fotu","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-giants","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-jets","tag-new-york-news","tag-raiders","tag-shelby-harris","tag-the-giants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214942","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=214942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}