{"id":502591,"date":"2026-03-04T05:17:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T05:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/502591\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T05:17:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T05:17:07","slug":"report-giants-to-release-lb-bobby-okereke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/502591\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Giants to release LB Bobby Okereke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Giants have informed linebacker Bobby Okereke that they are releasing him at the start of the league year on March 11, according to Jordan Schultz of The Schultz Report. <\/p>\n<p>Okereke was entering the final year of a four-year, $40 million contract, and his release will save them $9 million this season.<\/p>\n<p>He started all 17 games in 2025, totaling 143 tackles, a sack, two interceptions and six passes defensed. <\/p>\n<p>In his three seasons with the Giants, Okereke recorded 385 tackles, 5.5 sacks, four interceptions, seven forced fumbles and 19 pass breakups.<\/p>\n<p>Okereke, who turns 30 on July 29, played four seasons in Indianapolis after the Colts made him a third-round pick in 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Giants have informed linebacker Bobby Okereke that they are releasing him at the start of the league&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":502592,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-502591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502591","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=502591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}