{"id":339054,"date":"2026-05-22T20:13:53","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T14:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=339054"},"modified":"2026-05-22T20:13:53","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T14:43:53","slug":"giants-dl-roy-robertson-harris-suffers-achilles-tear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/05\/22\/giants-dl-roy-robertson-harris-suffers-achilles-tear\/","title":{"rendered":"Giants DL Roy Robertson-Harris Suffers Achilles Tear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Line of defense depth was already a matter mark for the Giants entering spring practices. The unit has now suffered a serious blow.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cdn.profootballrumors.com\/files\/2026\/05\/USATSI_27896809-scaled.jpg\"><\/a>Roy Robertson-Harris\u00a0<\/strong>suffered a torn Achilles during Thursday\u2019s OTA practice, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DDuggan21\/status\/2057776962358169611\">as first reported by Dan Duggan of The Athletic<\/a>. The injury can after all be expected to sideline him for many (if not all) of the 2026 campaign. Robertson-Harris is a pending 2027 free agent.<\/p>\n<p>Team and player agreed to a two-year, $9MM pact last March. That deal arrange Robertson-Harris to handle a full-time starting role, and he logged a 56% snap share in 2025. The 32-year-old was in position to once more function a key figure along the defensive interior for the Giants, especially within the wake of the\u00a0<strong>Dexter Lawrence\u00a0<\/strong>trade. As an alternative, Robertson-Harris\u2019 attention will now turn to a lengthy recovery process.<\/p>\n<p>Latest York waited until the sixth round of last month\u2019s draft so as to add a defensive lineman (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sports-reference.com\/cfb\/players\/quientrail-jamison-travis-1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Bobby Jamison-Travis<\/strong><\/a>). The team added veteran reinforcements in the shape of <strong>Shelby Harris\u00a0<\/strong>after which\u00a0<strong>D.J. Reader\u00a0<\/strong>through the post-draft wave of free agency. Those two will probably be counted on to occupy significant roles for a D-tackle group which not features Lawrence and which can not have Robertson-Harris in the image for the foreseeable future. Reader inked a two-year deal, but Harris is barely on the books for 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The Giants even have 2025 third-rounder\u00a0<strong>Darius Alexander\u00a0<\/strong>and up to date waiver claim\u00a0<strong>Zacch Pickens\u00a0<\/strong>in place at this point. The competition for enjoying time among the many remaining defensive linemen will probably be value watching closely because the offseason continues. Latest York currently has just over $11MM in cap space, a portion of which could possibly be dedicated to adding one other depth choice to compensate for losing Robertson-Harris.<\/p>\n<p>Since entering the NFL as an undrafted free agent, Robertson-Harris has amassed 134 appearances and 79 starts. He was unable to stay a low-end sack contributor with the Giants last season after chipping in during his time with the Bears and Jaguars. Nevertheless, one other campaign of consistent play against the run had been anticipated on this case. As an alternative, 2026 will probably be marked by a rehab process for Robertson-Harris which can have a notable impact on the Giants\u2019 plans for his or her defensive front.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Line of defense depth was already a matter mark for the Giants entering spring practices. The unit has now suffered a serious blow. Roy Robertson-Harris\u00a0suffered a torn Achilles during Thursday\u2019s OTA practice, as first reported by Dan Duggan of The Athletic. The injury can after all be expected to sideline him for many (if not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":339055,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[36505,3180,52022,6544,5823,2508],"class_list":["post-339054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-achilles","tag-giants","tag-robertsonharris","tag-roy","tag-suffers","tag-tear"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339054"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":339057,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339054\/revisions\/339057"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}