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Reports: Giants agree to terms with OT Jermaine Eluemunor & WR Isaiah Hodgins, pending physicals

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According to reports, the New York Giants have agreed to terms with right tackle Jermaine Eluemunor and wide receiver Isaiah Hodgins, pending physicals.

Eluemunor, who played 1,000+ snaps for the first time in his career in 2025, and Hodgins, who made five starts with the team last season, were set to become an unrestricted free agents.

Now entering his 10th NFL season, Eluemunor has played in 118 regular-season games with 76 starts – 57 at right tackle, 13 at left tackle, and six at right guard – for Baltimore (2017-18), New England (2019-20), Las Vegas (2021-23), and the Giants (2024-25).

Eluemunor's return also marks a reunion with John Harbaugh, whose Ravens originally selected him in the fifth round of the 2017 NFL Draft. He was named to the Pro Football Writers of America All-Rookie Team in his first of two seasons with Baltimore.

Eluemunor, 6-4 and 338 pounds, started all 16 games in which he played for the Giants in 2025. He has provided continuity to a unit that helped pave the way for one of the league's best rushing attacks.

The Giants last season ranked among the top five in rushing touchdowns, rushing yards, rushing first downs, and runs of 10+ yards. Their 22 rushing touchdowns are the third-most in franchise history.

He also blocked for Jaxson Dart and Cam Skattebo, who became the second rookie quarterback and running back duo to score 40+ points each in the same season since 1950. Dart's 2,272 passing yards are the second-most by a Giants rookie while his 487 rushing yards are the most.

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In his first season with the Giants in 2024, Eluemunor started the first nine games at right tackle and last six at left tackle in the wake of a season-ending injury to Andrew Thomas.

In his final season with Las Vegas in 2023, Eluemunor played in all 17 games with 14 starts, including 12 at right tackle and two at left tackle.

In 2022, he started a career-high 17 games – 15 at right tackle and one each at left tackle and right guard. He was part of an offensive line that helped the Raiders rush for 2,059 yards, their highest total since 2011.

Prior to the NFL, Eluemunor played 25 games with 13 starts in two years at Texas A&M after transferring from Lackawanna College in Scranton, Pa.

A London native, Eluemunor didn't play American football until he attended Morris Knolls High School in Denville, N.J.

The first football game he ever saw was the NFL's debut in London, where the Giants defeated the Dolphins, 13-10, at Wembley Stadium. It was late October of 2007 and Eluemunor, who had spent his life in England up to that point, was about to turn 13. Ten years later, he made his NFL debut for the Ravens against the Jaguars at none other than Wembley Stadium.

Hodgins, 6-3 and 200 pounds, has played 35 of his 38 career games with the Giants and made all 19 starts with them. After beginning his career as a sixth-round draft choice by the Bills in 2020, Hodgins was claimed off waivers by the Giants midway through the 2022 season. The Giants finished with a 9-7-1 record and won their first postseason game since Super Bowl XLVI.

Hodgins caught 33 passes for 351 yards and four touchdowns in eight games (five starts) that season with the Giants.

He also started two postseason games and led the Giants with eight catches for 105 yards and a touchdown in a Wild Card victory at Minnesota. He was the first Giants player to eclipse 100 receiving yards in a postseason game since Hakeem Nicks in Super Bowl XLVI.

Overall, Hodgins has 70 career catches for 749 yards and eight touchdowns in 38 games (19 starts) for the Bills (2020-2022) and Giants (2022-2025). Hodgins also spent time with the 49ers and Steelers prior to re-joining the Giants last season, but did not appear in any games with them.

Prior to the NFL, Hodgins caught 20 touchdowns at Oregon State, tied for the second-most in program history at the time.

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