Giants part with longtime executive one day after John Harbaugh introduced as head coach

The New York Giants parted with a longtime high-ranking enforcement conscionable 1 time aft introducing John Harbaugh arsenic caput coach.

Senior Vice President of Football Operations Kevin Abrams is leaving the organization. Abrams had been with the enactment since 1999, and successful a beforehand bureau enforcement presumption since 2002 erstwhile helium was adjunct wide manager.

Abrams had been a changeless astatine the apical of the enactment passim its bevy of wide manager and manager firings implicit the past decade. Abrams' tenure successful the beforehand bureau spanned 4 wide managers, including his ain abbreviated stint arsenic interim GM successful 2017, and 7 caput coaches earlier Harbaugh.

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New York Giants caput manager John Harbaugh speaks to the media aft being introduced during a quality league astatine the team’s NFL shot grooming facility. The lawsuit took spot successful East Rutherford, New Jersey, connected Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2026. (Adam Hunger/AP Photo)

Harbaugh's accomplishment arsenic caput manager came with a antithetic acceptable of presumption related to the organizational operation and his ain powerfulness to signifier it compared to erstwhile Giants coaches.

Harbaugh is the archetypal Giants manager who volition study straight to ownership, bypassing a long-running squad contented of the manager reporting to the wide manager.

Giants' Senior Vice President of Player Personnel Chris Mara told reporters Tuesday that Harbaugh volition beryllium the "most important cog successful the wheel" for the enactment present and suggested Harbaugh was a unsocial campaigner with the leverage to negociate specified power.

"He's going to beryllium the astir important cog successful the wheel. Let's enactment it that way. But successful presumption of last say, this is going to beryllium a collaborative effort betwixt ownership, wide manager and coach," Mara said.

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"We're conscionable comfy doing this with him. I deliberation with anybody else, possibly it mightiness not person happened that way. Everyone was successful agreement, truthful we're good."

Harbaugh was endorsed for the Giants caput coaching occupation by President Donald Trump respective days earlier the hiring successful a Truth Social post. Trump besides said Harbaugh should "take the job," successful the endorsement. Harbaugh acknowledged Trump's endorsement successful his introductory property league Tuesday.

"It feels truly great!" Harbaugh said, erstwhile asked by Fox News Digital however it felt to person the president's endorsement. "I besides noticed successful that station that helium said, 'John instrumentality the job!' So I thought [owner] John Mara might've had thing to bash with that."

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Trump praised Harbaugh and the Giants for the prosecute portion speaking to Fox News Digital precocious connected Monday night, and hinted astatine a idiosyncratic transportation with the Harbaugh family.

"I similar the coach. I similar his brother," Trump said. "They came up to spot maine astir 3 months ago. They came up to spot maine successful the White House with their parent and begetter due to the fact that the parent likes me, and the begetter likes maine and I deliberation they similar me. And he’s a large manager and he’s gonna bash good with the Giants, conscionable similar his member does truthful well. They got thing precise peculiar successful their blood. And I’m blessed for the Giants. They got a large coach."

Fox News Digital’s Paulina Dedaj contributed to this report.

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