{"id":340221,"date":"2026-09-07T21:56:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T21:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/340221\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T21:56:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T21:56:10","slug":"giants-release-darius-slayton-days-before-season-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/340221\/","title":{"rendered":"Giants release Darius Slayton days before season opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Darius Slayton initially made the 53-man roster after surviving the final round of cuts, but he didn\u2019t make it to Week 1.<\/p>\n<p>Slayton, the longest-tenured Giant who was set to have a salary-cap hit of $15.9 million in 2026, was released Monday, the team announced.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGrateful for my time in NY,\u201d Slayton posted on X. \u201c7 years a Giant nothing but love for one of the most prestigious organizations in the NFL. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.31958763;display:block\" decoding=\"async\"   data-modal-image=\"40703682\" width=\"779\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/new-york-giants-wide-receiver-137196738_a3a253.jpg\" alt=\"New York Giants wide receiver Darius Slayton in a practice uniform running with a football.\" class=\"wp-image-40703682\"\/>Giants wide receiver Darius Slayton #18, during practice at the New York Giants training facility. Charles Wenzelberg \/ New York Post<\/p>\n<p>\u201cExcited to see what\u2019s next.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He finished with 538 receiving yards and a touchdown in 14 games last year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Post\u2019s Paul Schwartz reported last month after the final preseason game that Slayton\u2019s spot was in jeopardy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Darius Slayton initially made the 53-man roster after surviving the final round of cuts, but he didn\u2019t make&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340222,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3921,9,2683,11,10,22,319],"class_list":["post-340221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-darius-slayton","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-giants","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340221","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=340221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}