{"id":553664,"date":"2026-03-30T05:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T05:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/553664\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T05:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T05:46:09","slug":"giants-release-injury-plague-kicker-graham-gano-after-six-seasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/553664\/","title":{"rendered":"Giants release injury-plague kicker Graham Gano after six seasons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHOENIX \u2013 What was impending became inevitable on Sunday when the Giants released their veteran kicker, Graham Gano, The Post confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>The expected move saves the Giants $4.5 million on this year\u2019s salary cap and counts for $1.25 million in dead cap money.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.5585997;display:block\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38933685\" width=\"920\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/9-new-york-giants-kicks-111919454.jpg\" alt=\"New York Giants kicker Graham Gano #9 kicks a field goal in the fourth quarter.\" class=\"wp-image-38933685\"  \/>Giants kicker Graham Gano was released on Sunday. Bill Kostroun\/New York Post<\/p>\n<p>Gano will turn 39 on April 9. <\/p>\n<p>He signed a three-year, $16.5 million contract before the 2023 season and, at the time, it looked like a smart move for the Giants, given that Gano in his previous three years with the team was nearly automatic with his field goal attempts.<\/p>\n<p>Gano, though, broke down physically and made it into only 23 games the past three seasons, including only five in 2025. <\/p>\n<p>In his six years with the Giants, Gano made 87.4 percent of his field goal attempts.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGo behind the scenes with Big Blue\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"inline-module__cta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSign up for Inside the Giants by Paul Schwartz, a weekly Sports+ exclusive.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tThank you\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The Giants have two kickers currently on their roster. Rookie Ben Sauls went 8 for 8 on his field goals late last season. <\/p>\n<p>In free agency, the Giants signed Jason Sanders, who connected on 84.6 percent of his field goals in seven years with the Dolphins. Sanders, 30, missed the entire 2025 with a hip injury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX \u2013 What was impending became inevitable on Sunday when the Giants released their veteran kicker, Graham Gano,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":553665,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[95715,977,349,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-553664","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-graham-gano","9":"tag-new-york-giants","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553664","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=553664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/553665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}