Coach John Harbaugh met with the media Sunday afternoon to provide further thoughts and updates from Saturday's 26-3 preseason victory over the Dolphins.

Here is everything you need to know:

📰 Right guard Francis Mauigoa and cornerback Colton Hood, two members of the 2026 draft class, are expected to return to practice this week. Mauigoa, the 10^th overall pick, left Thursday's joint practice with a "stinger-type" injury.

📰 Center John Michael Schmitz, who missed the opener with a concussion, and left guard Jon Runyan were the only two members of the first-team offensive line to start on Saturday. "JMS didn't play in the first game. He was out that week of practice, so it was work that we really wanted him to get. If Sisi had been able to go with his stinger, he would have played. So, those three guys could have played in there together from a communication standpoint, but he wasn't able to, but Jon was able to. So, that was the best we could do as far as getting them together from a communication standpoint. So, I thought it was really valuable. I mean, he worked together well with everybody, but them getting those reps together in a game was positive."

📰 Offensive lineman Joshua Ezeudu will be "OK." He got kicked in the back of the leg. He's day-to-day as it doesn't appear long-term. "Hopefully he'll be playing Friday night" in the preseason finale against the Jets. Ezeudu played 47 offensive snaps (58 percent) in Miami and five more on special teams.

"And you may have noticed he went back out to tackle in the fourth quarter, so the ability for him to play both guard and tackle, particularly on the right side, would be helpful for us. And that's our thought. He's kind of getting to the point now where we feel like he could swing right tackle, right guard. Right now we're kind of keeping him off the left side and just keeping him to the right side, and that helps a little bit with some of the techniques. It's like a hitter, he's not a switch hitter right now on both sides, but he is playing both the inside position and the outside position. So, we think he's ready for it, that he can handle it, and that gives us some position flexibility as a backup."

📰 J.C. Davis, a sixth-round pick, saw extensive action at left tackle. He played all 81 offensive snaps in addition to six on special teams. Harbaugh said the goal was to do exactly that. They wanted to put him in that situation and see how he handled it. "He did it. He did it well." Davis had a lot of plus plays and graded out well.

📰 Wide receiver Malik Nabers shedding the red non-contact practice jersey is a "possibility" this week but "not a necessity," according to Harbaugh. They will see how he feels tomorrow as they still have time until the season opener on Sept. 13.

📰 On running back Tyrone Tracy Jr., who lost a fumble in an otherwise productive game: "Well, I don't think you say, hey, a bad play or even two bad plays nullifies a whole career body of work, so to speak. And even in the game, he played well. He had numerous good runs, catches, pass protection pickups were good, but he had the one play that's the one thing you don't want to have as a running back. And in the last two games, he's had two things you don't want to have. So, nobody feels worse about it than he does. I mean, he's very conscientious, very determined guy. It matters a lot to him, so he's beating himself up. But the rest of the plays were all good. They were all pluses. So, you don't hold it against him. At the same time, you understand how valuable and important those things are to your football team, and he knows as well. So, it's just a balancing act that way. It's an ongoing pecking order, was your phrasing on it. It's ongoing right now. It's still to be determined over the course of the next week to see exactly where it shakes out, and we'll keep working at it."

📰 Harbaugh isn't superstitious, but he's a little stitious about the relative health at this point in the summer. "You go down there in two really intense days, two intense practices in three days, and you want to come through it healthy. We've done that, and we've had a great camp. Knock on wood, we've had a great camp so far with injuries. We've had very few soft tissue injuries. I mean, almost really none, nothing of consequence, nothing serious that wasn't just a couple of days. Nothing major so far. People are probably saying, don't say anything, don't say anything. I'm not superstitious, but as Michael said on The Office, 'I am a little stitious,' so we'll just have to leave it at that. But I do appreciate the guys doing a great job of taking care of their bodies and working hard at the same time. Now, let's see if we can get another week of improvement and at the same time really do a good job of taking care of each other. Our guys stay off the ground. They do a really good job of that. They prepare for practice, pre-practice. They prepare for practice, recover from practice, post-practice. We work on all the aspects of the loading and the soft tissue stuff, and we practice well. So, all that is a factor. I think over time, when you put the volume and the work in over time, it builds up your ability, your capacity for football, and it seems like we're doing that this time."

📰 The initial 53-man roster must be announced by 6 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 30. That leaves just a few practices and the preseason finale for players to make their cases. Harbaugh gave a long, thoughtful response about this week. It is worth the time to read in its entirety.

"Well, one thing – that's a great question, and such a human aspect to this whole thing and the relationships. We tell them your best dream is not too big, matter of fact it might not even be big enough. And you have the right to go ahead and feel free to hope for all the things that inside you might not even want to tell anybody because for fear that someone might – but if they're not laughing at your dream then it's not big enough either, so say it, speak it and go for it. And these guys have really done that. I feel like they've really put that out there and they've talked to each other, they've committed to helping one another achieve each other's dreams, those kinds of things we talk about in our meetings and I know they talk about amongst themselves as a group of guys. And so, you're pulling for everybody and everybody's pulling for everybody. Everybody wants – you see it on the sideline, you see it between guys who are competing for the same position. They're rooting for each other and helping each other along. I mean, you see so many of the best things about human nature come out on a football team, believe it or not. And maybe people that aren't a part of the sport would have a tough time believing that, but I think those of us who've been around the sport understand that this is how it works and it's a cool thing. So, this week, to your point, is a very challenging week because there will be guys that won't be here after this week. Now, maybe they'll come back. We brought (defensive lineman) Ben (Barten) back, the defensive lineman who just got released by the Jets and came back to us again here this week. And so, I told him, I said, "Hey, we had this conversation man, I told you you'd be back here." And I don't know why I thought he would, but he is. So, maybe you go back to what (Former Giants Owner) Wellington Mara famously said, 'Once a Giant, always a Giant.' I think that holds true as well. So, you become part of the team, part of the organization, part of the fabric of what it means to be a Giant, and I do think that those guys, they treasure it. I know I'm getting a little long-winded, but how many of us that played football wouldn't have loved to have had an opportunity to be in a football camp in the National Football League? To be invited, to get a try out even? All the not-so-good players like me would have loved that, and I tell these guys, 'You are the very best. Every single player here in this room is a great football player.' There is not one football player in an NFL camp who's not a great football player. You talk about the top .0001 percent of football players, even athletes, in the world that that are going to be in a football camp. But then there's levels to that too, just like there's levels to anything else, so within that striving to be the best you can be. But I would say everybody, every one of our guys, whether they're here the next week or they're not, will look back and say they did their very best, they put their best foot forward, and it's something that they can look back on really for the rest of their life proudly."