{"id":162074,"date":"2025-09-17T01:03:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T01:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/162074\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T01:03:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T01:03:07","slug":"new-york-giants-add-veteran-lb-neville-hewitt-to-practice-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/162074\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Giants add veteran LB Neville Hewitt to practice squad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">After a rash of injuries at the inside linebacker position, the New York Giants have<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AdamSchefter\/status\/1968021264175644805\" rel=\"nofollow\"> reportedly signed<\/a> veteran inside linebacker Neville Hewitt to their practice squad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Giants lost starting inside linebacker Micah McFadden to a foot injury in Week 1. He is on IR and is expected to miss much of the season. Backup linebacker special teamer Demetrius Flannigan-Fowles missed Sunday\u2019s game against the Dallas Cowboys with a calf injury. Darius Muasau, starting in place of McFadden in Week 2, suffered a concussion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Giants finished the game with special teamer Chris Board (14 snaps) and practice squad call-up Swayze Bozeman (5 snaps) filling the spot next to Bobby Okereke. Board suffered a chest injury during the game and has been placed on IR.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The array of roster moves is as follows:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Practice squad additions: <\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">WR Dalen Cambre<br \/>LB Neville Hewitt<br \/>LB Curtis Jacobs<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Free Agent Signing from NYG Practice Squad: <\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Terminated (by club) from practice squad: <\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">TE Qadir Ismail<br \/>DB Patrick McMorris<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Hewitt, 32, is in his 11th NFL season. He spent three years with the Miami Dolphins, three with the New York Jets and the last four with the Houston Texans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Hewitt has played in 146 regular-season games with 48 starts. He has played more than 3,500 defensive snaps and 2,600 special teams snaps in his career. Last season, he played in 17 games with four starts for Houston, totaling 341 defensive snaps and 329 on special teams.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Cambre impressed with the team during the spring and summer but did not make the roster. Jacobs played in nine games with two starts for the New England Patriots last season. He was released by the Tennessee Titans at the end of the preseason.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a rash of injuries at the inside linebacker position, the New York Giants have reportedly signed veteran&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162075,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[3267,25565,349,99],"class_list":["post-162074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-new-york-giants-news","tag-new-york-giants-roster","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162074","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=162074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}