The 2026 NFL Annual League Meeting is underway in Phoenix, where coaches and executives discuss the future of the league and their respective clubs.

Here is everything you need to know:

Coach John Harbaugh

📰 At the midway point between free agency and the draft, Harbaugh said they have "started establishing what we're going to be about as a football team." Free agency is about opportunity. You have to build where you can, when you can, and not overpay. You can't decide what's going to be available. You can't determine who and what options will be there for you.

📰 Harbaugh quoted a few notable people today, starting with a longtime Ravens executive. "As Ozzie [Newsome] used to always say, 'the right player at the right place that fits what we're trying to do.' I thought we did a really good job of it. It's still a work in progress for sure, but I'm really happy with their job."

📰 Harbaugh said you always "wonder" how the operation would work out with a new front office, but they had been planning for months. "I thought [general manager] Joe [Schoen], his group is great. [Assistant general manager] Brandon [Brown] was amazing. [Senior vice president of football operations and strategy] Dawn [Aponte] was great. We just got a really good working group of people in there. I thought we operated at a really high level."

📰 New tight end Isaiah Likely is going to bring a lot to the table. "He's a playmaking football player."

📰 Harbaugh has a great relationship with Likely, who is one of a handful of Ravens to join the Giants this offseason. "I have seen him in every kind of circumstance. So it's really a valuable thing to know players." It helps Harbaugh and the staff then "create a vision" for that player.

📰 Jaxson Dart is going to "really like" how Likely runs routes and gets into the quarterback's line of vision. "He's got a big catch radius. He can make plays after he makes a catch. He can get up field. He can make people miss. He can run people over. He's a very good perimeter blocker. You'll see that. That will be good for our run game."

📰 Harbaugh is "certain" that Likely will put up numbers, which he wasn't necessarily asked to do in Baltimore because of the Ravens' supporting cast. Don't forget about Theo Johnson, though. "Two tight ends out there that are pretty special, very special, talented players together. It's exciting."

📰 The state of the offensive line is like the entire team: "It's a work in progress."

📰 The goal is to build the best offensive and defensive lines in football. "Maybe it's a one-year proposition, maybe not." There is still work to do with the next waves of free agency, the draft, and returning roster.

📰 Going back to the free agency philosophy, the Giants "just haven't had an opportunity yet" to invest heavily up front. "It's like golf. I usually have a lot of bad shots in golf – behind trees and in the woods and stuff. Practiced all the tough shots and really just wasn't available to us yet for … the parameters that we built. You can overpay, but you can't afford it a lot of times. You want to be smart and efficient in how we did it and still going to continue to do that because you're also building for long-term."

📰 The Giants did re-sign offensive linemen Evan Neal and Joshua Ezeudu, whom Harbaugh remembered from their draft evaluation process. That's when the head coach quoted George Bernard Shaw about how some men ask "why" things are the way they are; other men dream the way they can be and ask "why not." Harbaugh is the latter.

Harbaugh added: "They're motivated. They came to the office and sat down and laid out a plan and a vision of the type of players they want to be. They showed us what they're doing to make that happen right now. So let's give them a shot. Let's give them an opportunity. They're talented. They're tough. They want to be great. They have dreams. They have big dreams. So if they're going to dream big I would like them to do it right here in our building and try to realize those dreams with us."

📰 Harbaugh wants a high-powered offense "that's going to be elegant enough to handle all the complicated things that go with attacking defenses nowadays and simple enough for the players to operate in action, in battle, in the heat of battle just like that in a really effective way."

That's where Dart comes in. During his rookie year, the quarterback showed he can "live in a lot of different worlds." That fits what Harbaugh did in Baltimore. "It's built around a lot of different elements."

📰 Some people believe the Giants are emphasizing "bully ball" but Harbaugh understands you can't live in just that world.

"You want to put defenses in conflict as much as you possibly can. You want to be able to get big, and if they want to respond accordingly, then you want to be able to play fast with your big guys. Or you want to maybe get a little lighter out there, put 11 personnel out there. But you set up schemes where they get too light, then you get bully on them and come after them. You see how the Rams play for instance. We don't want to live in one world. We want to try to live in all the different worlds on a game-to-game, series-to-series and even play-to-play basis and try to keep people off balance as much as we can."

📰 How do you coach the Giants to finish? "Every single team asks that question every single day. That's what you've got to find. We lived it. We have lived it for 18 years, lived it for 28 years in the National Football League, finding a way to win the game in the fourth quarter. There is a reason that high school teams put the four fingers up in the fourth quarter. Maybe we should do that. I don't know. If that would make a difference, we would be doing it."

📰 In terms of the draft, you don't want to go to the buffet table hungry. The Giants don't have to chase a specific need, but at the same time, they do have needs. "That's going to be a factor."

📰 If signing wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr is an option, Harbaugh will look at it. The bottom line is what is best for the Giants. Harbaugh and Beckham do text and talk. "He's one of my very favorite people in the world."

📰 Harbaugh can live with a Tee Higgins or Ja'Marr Chase winning a jump ball on the outside every once in a while, but if a team starts running on you for four or five yards, "that is the end of the world. That's a disaster. If it breaks out past that we can't even breathe. That's how you feel about stopping the run. We want the run stopped. You want the run stoned. You don't want it going anywhere."

📰 Harbaugh has embraced being in New York and all that comes with it. He got to meet Spike Lee recently at a Knicks game. "The fans were awesome. It was unbelievable to walk in there and the number of Giants fans in there and they were yelling and screaming and going crazy and coming down and high fiving. I got to meet Spike Lee. Spike Lee. I mean, so many just amazing people. Strahan was down there. He's a super mega star. I've gotten to know him. It's a really cool environment. It's really exciting. It's fun. Maybe one day get a chance to enjoy it."

📰 Harbaugh agreed with a reporter's assessment that Notre Dame running back Jeremiyah Love is a very good college prospect. "I would probably say very, very good player. Put a couple very's in front of that. Maybe a couple more. He's very good."

📰 Training camp in West Virginia will be an opportunity for a young team with a new staff to bond. They can "be about football" for 10-12 days in the hills, eat dinner together, have an off day together. "If it can help our team become a little closer, that's a good thing." It had been determined when he interviewed for the job. "Yeah, let's do it," he said.

📰 Harbaugh was just talking on his way in with another coach about joint practices. "We'll have at least one for sure." They may have two, with one day apiece. They will also play most of their guys, not all, in the preseason.

GM Joe Schoen

📰 The Giants' offseason workout program begins on Tuesday, April 7. Malik Nabers and Cam Skattebo will be there. How much they do in the coming weeks and months remains to be seen. The former had the encore to his record-setting rookie campaign cut short due to a knee injury. The latter was off to his own historic start before he suffered a gruesome ankle injury.

Schoen is "hopeful" the electric wide receiver will be ready from the jump in Week 1.

"It's going to be great to see him next week," Schoen said. "He'll be in on Tuesday and [it will be a chance to] see him, let our doctors get our hands on him, but we've been in communication with texts, phone calls. [Assistant general manager] Brandon Brown had dinner with him last Sunday when we were down there for the Miami pro day, so we've been in constant communication with him. He's in great spirits. He feels good. So, [we're] optimistic."

There is always a caveat, however, when it comes to every injury for every player.

"Like I always say, we'll see," Schoen said. "As long as there's not a setback or whatever it may be, optimistic Week 1, he'll be ready. But again, you just never tell with these things and how they're going to react or if there's any setbacks. But he's in a good spot right now mentally and physically."

📰 Skattebo, meanwhile, was just spotted at Arizona's pro day on Friday. The time and location lined up nicely for team executives to get a look at the school's prospects before the league meetings. Schoen was one of them.

"[He was] jogging around, running, jumping on ex-teammates' backs and stuff like that. I said, Will you stop?" Schoen said with a laugh. "But he's declaring himself he's ready to go. So it'll be good to see him next week as well. We'll ease him back. Obviously we don't play until September, but he's in good headspace, physically as well."

📰 Schoen said they have upgraded the roster but they're "never going to be there until we're holding up the trophy at the end of the season."

📰 The Giants are "a little bit light on money right now" at this point in free agency, but they are still in "constant contact" with agents at different positions that they are still pursuing.

📰 As will always be the case with Harbaugh, the special teams have been upgraded. In terms of starters, Schoen was fired up to get linebacker Tremaine Edmunds. They have familiarity going back to their Buffalo days. And then the Giants have an "opportunity to be more explosive" with the offensive weapons added around Dart.

📰 The Giants are building the roster to mirror Harbaugh's philosophies of running the ball and stopping the run.

📰 Speaking of the guard position, the Giants currently have an opening there as Greg Van Roten remains a free agent. He is "no longer here" but "not out of the mix." He's still on their free agency board. There are always trade options, the draft, and other avenues to adding talent. It's the same case with the defensive line. They were in play for some players, but they weren't going to overpay.

📰 Draft meetings will start on Thursday. The scouts will be in for a couple weeks, and the coaches and players will be back for the start of the offseason workout program.

📰 The Giants tentatively expect a compensatory selection next year, but "it could be [round] four, five, six, or nothing. Because some of it is out of your hands – injury, play time. You don't know." The formula is always in the back of their heads, but they will not a lose the chance to sign a player because of it.

📰 On the possibility of drafting a running back in the top five again: "We're going to take the best player available, regardless of position, that will help the New York Giants."

📰 At cornerback, Schoen thought Paulson Adebo came on towards the end of the year after he got over the knee injury. They are "excited" about Greg Newsome II and have Dru Phillips in Year 3 as the nickel. Meanwhile, it will be a fresh start with Deonte Banks, who had a good year as a returner. "Everybody is getting a fresh slate and show what you can do."

📰 Defensive coordinator Dennard Wilson has Maryland ties and is motivated to work with Banks. "You get a chance to rewrite your story with this new staff. He's still young. He's uber talented. Going into Year 4, excited to see what he does."

📰 Schoen liked outside linebacker coach Charlie Bullen's creativity and how he started to use three safeties while he was the interim defensive coordinator last year. They will certainly look into it again.

📰 Evan Neal is still "a big human being" who is only 25. At the end of the day, you take 14 offensive linemen to camp. He's motivated with a fresh start with a new staff but in a familiar environment. Schoen still sees Neal at guard.

📰 Ezeudu has versatility at both guards and both tackles. "Those types are good to have on the roster."