{"id":145149,"date":"2025-09-09T22:47:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T22:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/145149\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T22:47:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T22:47:08","slug":"micah-mcfadden-injury-giants-lb-to-undergo-foot-surgery-miss-significant-part-of-the-season-per-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/145149\/","title":{"rendered":"Micah McFadden injury: Giants LB to undergo foot surgery, miss ‘significant part of the season,’ per reports"},"content":{"rendered":"

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New York Giants<\/a> linebacker Micah McFadden<\/a> will undergo surgery on his foot but is likely to return at some point this season, according to ESPN<\/a>. NFL<\/a> Network first reported<\/a> that the starting defender is set to miss a “significant part of the season” with his injury.<\/p>\n

McFadden sustained the foot injury in the Giants’ Week 1 loss to the Washington Commanders<\/a>. Trainers placed an air cast on his right leg and carted him off the field after he made a tackle on quarterback Jayden Daniels<\/a> — one of his three stops of the day. Darius Muasau<\/a> replaced McFadden in the lineup and projects to fill an expanded role while the latter recovers from surgery.<\/p>\n

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Giants coach Brian Daboll said Monday<\/a> that McFadden initially thought he broke his leg. X-rays confirmed, however, that was not the case.<\/p>\n

McFadden has been one of the top defenders on the Giants roster since his debut in 2022. He made seven starts as a rookie and 14 in each of his second and third years as a pro. The former fifth-round pick cracked the 100-tackle mark in each of the last two seasons and set career highs in tackles for loss (12) and sacks (3) in 2023 and 2024, respectively.<\/p>\n

The timing of McFadden’s injury is unfortunate in that this is a contract year for the linebacker. The 25-year-old is in the final season of his rookie deal and will become an unrestricted free agent at the end of the campaign. He is set to earn $3.4 million this year.<\/p>\n

The Giants’ first game without McFadden comes Sunday with a divisional rivalry matchup against the Dallas Cowboys<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Getty Images New York Giants linebacker Micah McFadden will undergo surgery on his foot but is likely to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145150,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[1816,89993,15358,89992,977,349,99,3851],"class_list":["post-145149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-dallas-cowboys","tag-darius-muasau","tag-jayden-daniels","tag-micah-mcfadden","tag-new-york-giants","tag-nfl","tag-sports","tag-washington-commanders"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145149","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=145149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}