{"id":264355,"date":"2026-06-12T12:38:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T12:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/264355\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T12:38:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T12:38:11","slug":"new-york-giants-player-suffers-injury-that-has-nothing-to-do-with-football-but-will-be-fine-for-training-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/264355\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Giants player suffers injury that has nothing to do with football but will be fine for training camp"},"content":{"rendered":"

NFL players have to treat their bodies with the utmost respect in order to have successful careers and that\u2019s why the latest injury news involving one Giants player is unfortunate. Everything will be fine in the long run, though.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMay 21, 2026; East Rutherford, NJ, USA; New York Giants linebacker Cam Jones (47) participates in a drill during organized team activities at Quest Diagnostics Training Center. Mandatory Credit: John Jones-Imagn Images<\/p>\n

NFL players can suffer an injury at any time<\/a> on the football field.<\/p>\n

The same goes for off the field, as well. And that\u2019s not just limited to football players \u2013 society as a whole has to endure it, too.<\/p>\n

New York Giants linebacker Cam Jones recently suffered an injury while moving, according to coach John Harbaugh. It forced him to miss some practice time, which is a tough break for the newly-acquired free agent.<\/p>\n

\u201cCam Jones had an incident moving his house up here. He should be fine in like a
week,\u201d Harbaugh told reporters. He was moving his boxes and took a step wrong (and) he rolled his ankle or something.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cam Jones could be an underrated player for the Giants in 2026<\/p>\n

It\u2019s good that Jones\u2019 injury is short-term and that he\u2019ll be ready for training camp, because he has all the makings to be an impactful, yet underrated player for the Giants.<\/p>\n

Jones has made his hay on special teams over the first three years of his career, logging 737 total snaps<\/a> with the Kansas City Chiefs and New York Jets. If you\u2019re into Pro Football Focus grades, he\u2019s been one of the top-graded special teams players in each season, so far, and he led the Chiefs special teams with seven tackles in 2024.<\/p>\n

Cam Jones\u2019 special teams grades over the last three seasons<\/p>\n

Jones has earned everything that\u2019s been given to him after going undrafted in 2023. Below are his PFF grades on special teams and where he ranked, since:<\/p>\n

2023: 74.5 (5th)<\/p>\n

2024: 91.2 (2nd)<\/p>\n

2025: 81.2 (4th)<\/p>\n

Jones is currently one of seven inside\/off-ball linebackers on the Giants\u2019 roster. That\u2019s a very crowded room and three of the top spots are already held down by Arvell Reese, Tremaine Edmunds, and Micah McFadden. Teams usually don\u2019t carry more than four inside \u2018backers on the 53-man roster, so that could very well leave four guys battling for one job.<\/p>\n

Well, Jones\u2019 special teams prowess should actually give him the advantage in that race. A team isn\u2019t going to deploy four linebackers at once, so the guy manning the LB4 position needs to have special teams ability.<\/p>\n

Jones has just that. We\u2019ll see if it\u2019s enough to make the cut when it\u2019s all said and done.<\/p>\n

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New York Giants News<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\tGiants fans have reason to worry about Malik Nabers\u2019 availability, and the inconsistent messaging is making it worse\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n

The New York Giants are being inconsistent when discussing the outlook of Malik Nabers\u2019 knee injury and the potential timetable for his return to the practice field. And it doesn\u2019t feel good. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NFL players have to treat their bodies with the utmost respect in order to have successful careers and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264356,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[102432,9,11,10],"class_list":["post-264355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-giants-injury-updates","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264355","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=264355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}