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NY Giants news, 1/20: John Harbaugh arrives, Brian Burns, DC candidate

Good morning, New York Giants fans!

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Harbaugh in the building

O’Connor: The inside story of the Giants’ John Harbaugh deal and the talks that saved it | The Athletic

His father, Jack Harbaugh, a high school and college football lifer, effectively told his older son he’d be nuts to sign with anyone other than the Giants. John agreed with his dad, and yet he needed to ensure that he could change the infrastructure of the franchise enough to make it a consistent winner like the one he helped build in Baltimore.

This wasn’t about Schoen; the coach definitely feels he can work with the GM. Harbaugh wanted the ability to impact the entire operation, from security to training to analytics to media relations to staff size to assistant salaries to relocation expenses to you name it. And yes, in the unlikely event there’s a stalemate on draft day between Harbaugh and Schoen, there’s no longer any question who will prevail.

The Giants have been in the Mara family for more than 100 years, and it was never going to be easy to merge with the modern-day Harbaugh machine. This wasn’t a hostile takeover, or even a non-hostile takeover. This was a long-overdue reboot for a franchise that hasn’t done any meaningful winning since its fourth Super Bowl victory 14 years ago.

What John Harbaugh will bring to the Giants

Izenberg: Giants banking on Harbaugh DNA to resuscitate limping franchise | NJ.com

You cannot fault John Harbaugh’s record with the Baltimore Ravens. He won a lot of games. He won a Super Bowl. He won the respect of coaches and general managers around the NFL.

Most people agree that the New York Giants made what appears to be the only correct hire for the limping franchise.

It’s easy to say the Giants can be next year’s New England Patriots or Chicago Bears with a new coach in Year 1, but they have a lot of work to do before getting to that point in terms of roster building.

That might be Harbaugh’s biggest initial challenge — building a roster to his desire with the right people in the room. But make no mistake, the expectations long term are to get back into being Super Bowl contenders. The Giants and Harbaugh think they have the core and organizational structure to make that happen, and possibly make him the first coach to win Super Bowls for two different franchises.

6. Throughout Harbaugh’s 18 seasons in Baltimore, the Ravens allowed the fewest touchdowns, points, rushing first downs, rushing yards, and third-down conversions in the NFL. They also allowed the second-fewest first downs and total yards in the league during that time.

One was making sure he could work with the people on hand, and he got to that point with Schoen over the past 10 days. (Schoen was a significant part of the team’s recruitment of Harbaugh.) Harbaugh knew, too, that it’d be crucial to get to know Chris Mara, with John’s younger brother taking on more within the organization as the elder sibling has been in the throes of a cancer fight. “He was great,” Harbaugh told me when we spoke Saturday.

The second was ensuring that things were formatted correctly. After 18 years in Baltimore, working in one of the NFL’s most built-out football operations, Harbaugh had a pretty good idea of what he’d want from a resource standpoint. In some areas, the Giants were where they needed to be (sports science). In others (analytics), they had a ways to go. Harbaugh wasn’t asking anyone else to arrange this for him. He just wanted to pull it off himself. The Giants’ commitment assured him that he’d get what he needed. And now, in his words, “We gotta go in and build it.”

2026 NFL Mock Draft: Jets pivot to David Bailey at No. 2 | PFF

5. New York Giants: WR Carnell Tate, Ohio State. The Giants should follow a simple line of thinking in the 2026 NFL Draft: Build around quarterback Jaxson Dart. Thus, the optimal pick is either an offensive lineman or a pass catcher. If New York goes the pass catcher route, then Ohio State’s Carnell Tate is the best stylistic fit, given what the Giants already have in wide receiver Malik Nabers. The next man up in an increasingly long line of impressive Ohio State wide receivers, Tate caught 85.7% of the contested targets he saw in 2025, didn’t drop a pass and averaged 3.03 yards per route run.