{"id":139322,"date":"2025-09-07T12:09:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T12:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/139322\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T12:09:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T12:09:08","slug":"roster-news-giants-elevate-dl-elijah-garcia-from-the-practice-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/139322\/","title":{"rendered":"Roster news: Giants elevate DL Elijah Garcia from the practice squad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The New York Giants announced Saturday afternoon that they\u2019ve elevated defensive lineman Elijah Garcia from their practice squad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Garcia played in five games last season, starting three after star defensive tackle Dexter Lawrence was lost for the season to a dislocated elbow. Garcia, a third-year player out of Rice, started the 2024 season on the Giants\u2019 practice squad but played better than expected after being signed to the 53-man roster. He had 14 total tackles, two for a loss, and a quarterback hit, as well as a fumble recovery, playing 143 defensive snaps.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Giants released Garcia as a part of their final cut down to their initial 53-man roster. It was a sign of the greater depth on the line this year, but the team also quickly signed him to their practice squad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">This is the first of three potential game day elevations for Garcia under the practice squad rules. Once the Giants elevate him a third time, they\u2019ll be forced to sign him to the main roster if they want him available for game day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The decision to elevate a defensive lineman is likely to improve their depth in the face of the Washington Commanders\u2019 rushing offense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York Giants announced Saturday afternoon that they\u2019ve elevated defensive lineman Elijah Garcia from their practice squad.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139323,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[25565,349,99],"class_list":["post-139322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-new-york-giants-roster","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}