{"id":32337,"date":"2025-09-07T14:34:50","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T18:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/giants-micah-mcfadden-starting-lb-injured-in-nfl-debut\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T14:34:50","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T18:34:50","slug":"giants-micah-mcfadden-starting-lb-injured-in-nfl-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nfl\/giants-micah-mcfadden-starting-lb-injured-in-nfl-debut\/","title":{"rendered":"Giants: Micah McFadden, Starting LB, Injured in NFL Debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Giants&#8217; Micah McFadden Suffers Injury in Season Opener<\/h2>\n\nThe New York Giants&#8217; starting linebacker, Micah McFadden, suffered an injury in the first quarter of the season opener against the Washington Commanders.\n\nMcFadden was stretchered off the field due to a leg or foot injury.\n\nThe injury occurred while tackling the Commanders&#8217; quarterback, Jayden Daniels. His right leg was immobilized with a splint, and he was taken off the field on a stretcher, waving to the fans who gave him a warm ovation.\n\nHe was replaced by second-year linebacker Darius Muasau. The Commanders took advantage of the situation immediately, finding tight end Zach Ertz for a touchdown on the next play.\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a4.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0907%2Fr1542237_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"Giants linebacker Micah McFadden, who had a career-high 107 tackles last season, was carted off in New York&#039;s opener with a leg\/foot injury.\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\nMcFadden, selected by the Giants in the fifth round of the 2022 draft, became a full-time starter in 2023. He had started in 14 games in each of the previous two seasons, accumulating more than 100 tackles in each of those years, including a personal best of 107 last season.\n\nThis was going to be an important season for McFadden, whose rookie contract was expiring at the end of the season. Although he wasn&#8217;t focused on a new contract, but on having a good season, as he stated at the beginning of the summer.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;I think there are a lot of things I can focus on to improve. There hasn&#8217;t been anything [with the contract] yet and I&#8217;m just focused on what we&#8217;re doing right now,&#8221; he commented.<\/p><cite>Micah McFadden<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Giants&#8217; Micah McFadden Suffers Injury in Season Opener The New York Giants&#8217; starting linebacker, Micah McFadden, suffered an injury in the first quarter of the season opener against the Washington Commanders. McFadden was stretchered off the field due to a leg or foot injury. The injury occurred while tackling the Commanders&#8217; quarterback, Jayden Daniels. His [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32338,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[1412,1048,290,8410],"class_list":{"0":"post-32337","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-commanders","9":"tag-giants","10":"tag-injury","11":"tag-micah-mcfadden"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}