On Sunday, Giants running back Najee Harris expressed concern about the distribution of touches in the team\u2019s ground game. He\u2019ll now get none at all.<\/p>\n
Via Ian Rapoport of NFL Network, the Giants are releasing Harris<\/a>.<\/p>\n In five games with one start in New York, Harris had 31 attempts for 99 yards. In Sunday\u2019s loss to the Saints, Harris had four carries for two yards on 11 snaps.<\/p>\n Before the game, it was reported that Harris was expected to take on a larger role.<\/p>\n The framing of the report \u2014 that the Giants \u201care releasing\u201d Harris \u2014 could be an effort to get someone to try to trade for his one-year, $1.215 million contract.<\/p>\n Either way, he\u2019s out with the Giants. And it\u2019s hard not to think it was a reaction to his candid criticism of the running game.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s hard to get in a rhythm with one or two plays,\u201d Harris said. \u201cThe first couple runs will be like, \u2018OK, how are they playing it?\u2019 And then the next ones will be, \u2018OK, this is how you attack it.\u2019 But if you\u2019re getting a play here and then get taken out for a series, there\u2019s nothing you could do. That\u2019s why I\u2019m saying, \u2018I don\u2019t know.\u2019 I\u2019ve never been through none of this before<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n A first-round pick in 2021, Harris had four straight 1,000-yard seasons in Pittsburgh. He tore an Achilles tendon after only three games with the Chargers in 2025, after an offseason fireworks mishap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Sunday, Giants running back Najee Harris expressed concern about the distribution of touches in the team\u2019s ground…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":889113,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[99],"class_list":["post-889112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889112","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=889112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/889113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=889112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=889112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=889112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}