Who’s Sweating It Out in 2026: The Next Big Shower Starlight for the New York Giants?

Darnell Mooney | Getty Images It’s been an interesting first week of free agency for the New York Giants under their new head coach John Harbaugh. The Giants have made quite a few additions while losing quite a few players as well. The number depends on how you treat different free agents.

To be sure, re-signing right tackle Jermaine Eluemunor, linebacker Micah McFadden, and several others, and at a reasonable average annual value, is a win. That hasn’t made the team better, though, it’s just avoided making it worse than it was in 2025 by running it back from last season. For this post I want to address a different question – how good are the 2026 Giants, at the moment, compared to the 2025 Giants ?

The answer to that also depends on how you’re thinking about it. Most people feel that John Harbaugh will be a big upgrade over Brian Daboll as a head coach (although it remains to be seen whether Matt Nagy is an upgrade over the Daboll/Mike Kafka offensive coordinator tandem). Everyone believes that Dennard Wilson will be a big improvement over Shane Bowen as defensive coordinator.

Let’s instead just focus on the players and ask the question in the title of this post. It’s of course premature to definitively answer it with more of free agency to come plus the NFL Draft next month. This post simply asks whether free agency and the draft can indeed address the remaining roster holes and give the Giants a better roster than they had in 2025.