{"id":378227,"date":"2026-10-20T20:20:27","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T20:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/378227\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T20:20:27","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T20:20:27","slug":"ny-giants-release-running-back-who-complained-about-timeshare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/378227\/","title":{"rendered":"NY Giants release running back who complained about timeshare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The New York Giants have released running back Najee Harris, a team source confirmed on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">After gaining just 2 yards on four carries Sunday against the New Orleans Saints, Harris had complained about not being able to get into a rhythm as the Giants were rotating four running backs during the game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Harris won\u2019t be given another opportunity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The 28-year-old Harris had 1,000-yard rushing seasons in each of the first four years of his career, all with the Pittsburgh Steelers. He tore an Achilles tendon early in the 2025 season with the Los Angeles Chargers, and signed with the Giants as a free agent during the preseason.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Harris had just 99 yards on 31 carries for New York, an average of just 3.2 yards per attempt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Giants now have Cam Skattebo, Tyrone Tracy, and Devin Singletary at running back.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Moves to replace those players on the 53-man roster have not yet been announced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York Giants have released running back Najee Harris, a team source confirmed on Tuesday morning. After&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378228,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,8144,9093,11,10],"class_list":["post-378227","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\/378227","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=378227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}