{"id":221272,"date":"2026-05-05T23:03:32","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T23:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/221272\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T23:03:32","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T23:03:32","slug":"ny-giants-news-dt-d-j-reader-finally-agrees-to-terms-with-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/221272\/","title":{"rendered":"NY Giants news: DT D.J. Reader finally agrees to terms with New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The New York Giants and D.J. Reader have finally ended their courtship, with the veteran defensive tackle agreeing to a two-year, $12.5 million contract. NFL insiders Ian Rapport and Jordan Schultz posted the news simultaneously on X.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Reader visited the Giants, who were already in the market for defensive tackle help, before they traded Dexter Lawrence to the Cincinnati Bengals a week ahead of the 2026 NFL Draft.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Once Lawrence was moved, signing Reader became a higher priority. A 10-year veteran, Reader was a fifth-round pick by the Houston Texans in the 2016 NFL Draft. He has played for the Texans, Cincinnati Bengals and spent the last two seasons with the Detroit Lions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Reader has played in 137 NFL regular season games, with 128 starts. He did not miss a game for the Lions last season, starting all 17 and playing 583 defensive snaps.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The 6-foot-3, 330-pound Reader will be the primary nose tackle in a revamped interior defensive line. In addition to trading Lawrence, the Giants lost Rakeem Nunez-Roches and D.J. Davidson in free agency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Reader will be joined on the defensive front by veteran free agent signees Shelby Harris and Leki Fotu, along with sixth-round pick Bobby Jamison-Travis. Roy Robertson-Harris and 2025 third-round pick Darius Alexander return from last year\u2019s team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York Giants and D.J. Reader have finally ended their courtship, with the veteran defensive tackle agreeing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221273,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,46824,8144,11,10],"class_list":["post-221272","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\/221272","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=221272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}