{"id":324186,"date":"2026-08-18T17:58:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T17:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/324186\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T17:58:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T17:58:11","slug":"new-york-giants-are-signing-running-back-najee-harris-ap-source-says-nfl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/324186\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Giants are signing running back Najee Harris, AP source says | NFL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) \u2014 Running back Najee Harris is signing with the New York Giants, according to a person with knowledge of the agreement.<\/p>\n<p>The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity Tuesday because the deal had not yet been announced. The 28-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/b9bae48c816433cd0b61f2ad7f466b6e\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">worked out for the team<\/a> on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Harris is coming off <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/chargers-najee-harris-hurt-bd6168f020dd0643bcb2ae025732b601\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">tearing his left Achilles tendon<\/a> on a noncontact play in a game on Sept. 21 while with the Los Angeles Chargers.<\/p>\n<p>Giants coach John Harbaugh said Harris is not 100% healthy and expected it to be a process to get him up and going if signed. As a result, it was not immediately clear how soon Harris would participate in training camp practices.<\/p>\n<p>Harris is not far removed from four consecutive 1,000-yard rushing seasons with Pittsburgh from 2021-24.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nfl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">See AP\u2019s full NFL coverage here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n                Success! An email has been sent to  with a link to confirm list signup.\n            <\/p>\n<p>\n                Error! There was an error processing your request.\n            <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) \u2014 Running back Najee Harris is signing with the New York Giants, according to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324187,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11979,122091,9,11,10,4087,319],"class_list":["post-324186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-football","tag-giants-sign-najee-harris","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-nfl-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324186","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=324186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}