{"id":339945,"date":"2026-09-07T14:48:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T14:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/339945\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T14:48:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T14:48:13","slug":"ny-giants-could-add-veteran-defensive-tackle-dean-lowry-to-practice-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/339945\/","title":{"rendered":"NY Giants could add veteran defensive tackle Dean Lowry to practice squad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">New York Giants general manager Joe Schoen promised last week that the Giants were not done adding to their defensive line, saying they would \u201cprobably\u201d add a veteran player to that group this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Well, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JFowlerESPN\/status\/2096924903324737740\" rel=\"nofollow\">per ESPN\u2019s Jeremy Fowler<\/a>, the Giants may have done just that. Dean Lowry, a 10-year veteran, plans to sign their practice squad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">To be clear, a source has informed Big Blue View that Lowry is not yet officially a Giant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Lowry, 32, is a 6-foot-6, 296-pound defensive end who was a fourth-round pick by the Green Bay Packers in 2016. Lowry spent seven years with the Packers, one with the Minnesota Vikings, and the last two with the Pittsburgh Steelers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Lowry has played in 132 regular-season games with 85 starts. Statistically, he has 16.5 career sacks and 271 tackles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Lowry spent last season on injured reserve due to a torn ACL. He was released by the Steelers in the cutdown from 90 to 53 players.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Giants have continued to churn their defensive tackle depth as they look for improved run defense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York Giants general manager Joe Schoen promised last week that the Giants were not done adding to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339946,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,8144,9093,11,10],"class_list":["post-339945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-giants-news","tag-new-york-giants-roster","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339945","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=339945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}