{"id":866729,"date":"2026-10-01T05:50:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T05:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/866729\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T05:50:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T05:50:11","slug":"ny-giants-turn-to-familiar-face-for-edge-depth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/866729\/","title":{"rendered":"NY Giants turn to familiar face for edge depth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The New York Giants are bringing veteran edge defender Jihad Ward back to East Rutherford, N.J., per multiple reports. Ward is being signed off the Minnesota Vikings\u2019 practice squad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Giants, of course, needed depth at the edge position after Brian Burns was lost for the season to a torn ACL.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The 32-year-old Ward is an 11-year veteran. He played for the Giants in 2022 and 2023, recording eight sacks over two seasons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Ward, 6-foot-5, 285 pounds, spent last season with the Tennessee Titans, where current Giants defensive coordinator Dennard Wilson was in that role for Tennessee. Ward had five sacks, tying the career-high he set with the Giants in 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Ward is also familiar with Giants head coach John Harbaugh. He played for Harbaugh with the Ravens in 2019 and 2020.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Ward has played in 136 regular-season game, starting 49. He had 24 career sacks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Giants terminated the contract of veteran defensive tackle Josh Tupou to make room for Ward. Tupou played in one game for the Giants this season, and could land back on the practice squad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York Giants are bringing veteran edge defender Jihad Ward back to East Rutherford, N.J., per multiple&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":866730,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[3267,25565,349,99],"class_list":["post-866729","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\/866729","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=866729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/866730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=866729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=866729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=866729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}