Wednesday, September 16
4:38 p.m. -- The New York Giants made the following roster moves Wednesday ahead of their Week 2 matchup against the Los Angeles Rams on Monday Night Football.
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- DL Josh Tupou
Practice Squad
- WR Dalen Cambre
12:56 p.m. -- Coach John Harbaugh spoke to the media on Wednesday at the Quest Diagnostics Training Center. It is an extended schedule this week because of the Monday night road game. With the extra day, the Giants held a walk-through, known as an ACT practice. Thursday will be the normal "Wednesday" practice and so on.
The Giants will travel Saturday to Los Angeles, a day earlier than a typical road trip. Harbaugh did the same thing with the Ravens and even going back to his days with the Eagles. The idea is to get their clocks right and peak on Monday night.
Harbaugh provided a few other updates:
The trainers said WR Malik Nabers looked good coming out of his first game back. It looked like it was an "A" outcome.
RB Tyrone Tracy has a "bad flu." They expect him to be back tomorrow. He came in yesterday morning "not in great shape and sent him home." The worry is getting everyone else sick.
RB Najee Harris is "looking good." They will continue his process and see where that leads them this week. Harris, who has not played since suffering an Achilles injury in Week 3 last season with the Chargers, was inactive on Sunday night.
Monday, September 14
8:17 p.m. -- Matthew Stafford typically pulls for the Giants because his brother-in-law is Chad Hall, their wide receivers coach. That won't be the case this week, of course, as the Giants look to start 2-0 on Monday night in Los Angeles. But the Rams quarterback and defending NFL MVP watched their season-opening win over the Cowboys with a close eye. He came away impressed.
"I saw a young team with a bunch of talent," Stafford said on his weekly SiriusXM show “Let’s Go” with co-host Jim Gray. "When you look at the defensive side of the ball, a bunch of pass rushers, I thought they did a really nice job in the pass game against the Dallas Cowboys who have as much talent as anybody in the pass game. I think Dak [Prescott] has played at a high level for a long time now and with CeeDee [Lamb] and [George Pickens] and all those guys, they're really talented on the outside. So for them to get that win, 28-20, was a big start for their season."
Stafford also watched Jaxson Dart become the first quarterback in NFL history to open a season with at least three passing touchdowns, 50 rushing yards, and a passer rating of 130.
"Obviously, the young quarterback, Jaxson Dart, I thought played really well, played within himself, made some plays with his feet," Stafford said. "They're a dangerous team. I think every team in the NFL, it's what people out there forget, year in and year out going through training camps and watching preseason, think they can pick who's going to win every game. And that's why we play them. You put the ball down, you go play the games. And I thought the Giants did a heck of a job the other night. I thought it was cool on the weekend of September 11th, 25 years later, for the Giants and New York City to get a win, felt right and felt great to have the NFL have something like that happen and those guys play well."
4:59 p.m. -- The Giants signed RB Phil Mafah to the practice squad and waived WR Dalen Cambre, who was signed to the active roster on Saturday. Mafah, 6-1 and 232 pounds, was drafted in the seventh round last year by the Cowboys. He has appeared in one NFL game, rushing five times for 18 yards and a touchdown in the 2025 finale against the Giants.
10:50 a.m. -- Rams head coach Sean McVay confirmed OLB Myles Garrett will undergo knee surgery and be placed on injured reserve. The two-time NFL Defensive Player of the Year will miss at least the Rams' next four games.
"The reality is, our job is to put our players and our team in positions to have successful outcomes," McVay said Monday during a video conference with reporters, according to the Rams' official site. "Thought we would take an approach where he'd be feeling good enough to go contribute positive change and be the player that he's capable of. That wasn't the case, and so the next right thing for us is to be able to get this thing fixed. In the meantime, we'll look forward to whenever that time is that we get him back. But that was kind of what went into the decision, and now we're moving forward."
Sunday, September 13
11:28 p.m. -- Just like he did against the Bengals 18 years ago, John Harbaugh began a new tenure as head coach by winning a divisional rivalry at home. This time, it was his Giants defeating the Cowboys, 28-20, on Sunday Night Football, a game in which the home team never trailed. It marked Harbaugh's 194th victory, including a Super Bowl title, but this ranks No. 1 because it's the one right now.
"My dad always says that," Harbaugh said. "He'll say this in the car on the way home (tonight), he'll say, 'John, you've never had a better win than that.' He says it every time, you know, and I'm going to tell you, I think this time it might be true. But this was really special because these guys, these players, these guys who've had belief from the beginning, who don't bat an eye, who just try to do the right thing every single day."
On top of that, they did it in front of their home crowd.
"This crowd, I'm telling you, man, the parking lot. The parking lot was off the chain driving in here," Harbaugh said. "It was packed. I'm talking like four and a half hours before the game. I get here early now, and I'm thinking it's going to be easy to get in here and it wasn't. And then the stadium was just absolutely electric from beginning to end. The sideline was electric before the game. I mean the whole thing was just quite an environment. It was really great to be a part of it and to see our guys step up in that environment, to handle all that and to focus on the football."
The Giants will look for a 2-0 start with another primetime game. They travel to Los Angeles in Week 2 for a Monday night matchup with the Rams.
"I think we're on our way," Harbaugh said. "You'll talk to the players and they're going to tell you that we have a lot of work to do. They're going to tell you all the things that could have been better and should have been better. But they're also going to tell you that we're on our way. We took steps in that direction and then you can keep creating it throughout the course of a season. I feel like everybody understands the vision, and it's not like one man's vision. It's our vision together because everybody contributes to that and what it's going to look like. We're talking with each other all day, coaches-players, players-coaches, players-players, all day, all the time about how to get where we want to get. We've got guys meeting with their coaches and they're meeting on their own, watching tape on their own, after meetings are over, trying to create that vision that you're talking about."
Thursday, September 10
(Friday, September 11, Australian Eastern Standard Time)
11:25 p.m. ET (1:25 p.m., Friday, AEST) -- The Rams fell to the 49ers, 27-7, at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in the NFL's first regular-season game played in Australia.
