Monday, September 14
4:59 p.m. -- The Giants signed RB Phil Mafah to the practice squad and waived WR Dalen Cambre, who was signed to the active roster on Saturday. Mafah, 6-1 and 232 pounds, was drafted in the seventh round last year by the Cowboys. He has appeared in one NFL game, rushing five times for 18 yards and a touchdown in the 2025 finale against the Giants.
10:50 a.m. -- Rams head coach Sean McVay confirmed OLB Myles Garrett will undergo knee surgery and be placed on injured reserve. The two-time NFL Defensive Player of the Year will miss at least the Rams' next four games.
"The reality is, our job is to put our players and our team in positions to have successful outcomes," McVay said Monday during a video conference with reporters, according to the Rams' official site. "Thought we would take an approach where he'd be feeling good enough to go contribute positive change and be the player that he's capable of. That wasn't the case, and so the next right thing for us is to be able to get this thing fixed. In the meantime, we'll look forward to whenever that time is that we get him back. But that was kind of what went into the decision, and now we're moving forward."
Sunday, September 13
11:28 p.m. -- Just like he did against the Bengals 18 years ago, John Harbaugh began a new tenure as head coach by winning a divisional rivalry at home. This time, it was his Giants defeating the Cowboys, 28-20, on Sunday Night Football, a game in which the home team never trailed. It marked Harbaugh's 194th victory, including a Super Bowl title, but this ranks No. 1 because it's the one right now.
"My dad always says that," Harbaugh said. "He'll say this in the car on the way home (tonight), he'll say, 'John, you've never had a better win than that.' He says it every time, you know, and I'm going to tell you, I think this time it might be true. But this was really special because these guys, these players, these guys who've had belief from the beginning, who don't bat an eye, who just try to do the right thing every single day."
On top of that, they did it in front of their home crowd.
"This crowd, I'm telling you, man, the parking lot. The parking lot was off the chain driving in here," Harbaugh said. "It was packed. I'm talking like four and a half hours before the game. I get here early now, and I'm thinking it's going to be easy to get in here and it wasn't. And then the stadium was just absolutely electric from beginning to end. The sideline was electric before the game. I mean the whole thing was just quite an environment. It was really great to be a part of it and to see our guys step up in that environment, to handle all that and to focus on the football."
The Giants will look for a 2-0 start with another primetime game. They travel to Los Angeles in Week 2 for a Monday night matchup with the Rams.
"I think we're on our way," Harbaugh said. "You'll talk to the players and they're going to tell you that we have a lot of work to do. They're going to tell you all the things that could have been better and should have been better. But they're also going to tell you that we're on our way. We took steps in that direction and then you can keep creating it throughout the course of a season. I feel like everybody understands the vision, and it's not like one man's vision. It's our vision together because everybody contributes to that and what it's going to look like. We're talking with each other all day, coaches-players, players-coaches, players-players, all day, all the time about how to get where we want to get. We've got guys meeting with their coaches and they're meeting on their own, watching tape on their own, after meetings are over, trying to create that vision that you're talking about."
Thursday, September 10
(Friday, September 11, Australian Eastern Standard Time)
11:25 p.m. ET (1:25 p.m., Friday, AEST) -- The Rams fell to the 49ers, 27-7, at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in the NFL's first regular-season game played in Australia.
