{"id":332906,"date":"2026-08-29T23:08:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T23:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/332906\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T23:08:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T23:08:22","slug":"ex-giants-linebacker-bobby-okereke-finally-signs-with-new-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/332906\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Giants linebacker Bobby Okereke finally signs with new team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Okereke signed a four-year, $40 million contract with the Giants before the 2023 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Okereke had a career-year in 2023, with 149 tackles, 10 passes defensed, 2.5 sacks, 2 interceptions, and four forced fumbles in Wink Martindale\u2019s defense. He missed five games in 2024 due to a back injury, and was not nearly as productive the past two seasons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The 30-year-old Okereke is a former Giants team captain and Walter Payton Man of the Year Award nominee.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Giants have rebuilt their linebacking corps with the 6-foot-4, 251-pound veteran Tremaine Edmunds and 6-4, 243-pound No. 5 overall pick Arvell Reese.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Okereke, 6-2, 235 is a good player, but not the thumper or physical presence that Edmunds and Reese are.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Stick with Big Blue View as we detail all the roster moves as the Giants reach the 53-man roster limit by 6 p.m. ET on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Okereke signed a four-year, $40 million contract with the Giants before the 2023 season. Okereke had a career-year&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":332907,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,8144,11,10],"class_list":["post-332906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","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\/332906","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=332906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}