\u201cLet\u2019s do it!\u2019\u2019 Zvada posted on his X account Saturday night, standing in front of a swimming pool, giving two thumb-up gestures while wearing a blue Giants hat.<\/p>\n
Zvada has a shot to make the team as a rookie, with the position in a state of flux. The Giants after six seasons parted ways with 39-year old Graham Gano<\/a> and signed veteran Jason Sanders<\/a>, who spent seven years with the Dolphins but spent the 2025 season on injured reserve with a hip issue. Ben Sauls, who went 8-for-8 on field goals as a rookie late last season for the Giants, is also on the roster.<\/p>\n There was only one kicker selected in the 2026 draft \u2014 Trey Smack of Florida, who went to the Packers in the sixth round. The Giants moved quickly following the seventh round, as competition for undrafted free agents is an intense and rushed free-for-all, a rapid-fire recruiting process to scoop up players not taken Thursday, Friday or Saturday.<\/p>\n \u201cYeah, we\u2019ve been working on it for weeks,\u2019\u2019 general manager Joe Schoen said after the Giants took linebacker Jack Kelly out of BYU with the third of their three sixth-round picks to complete their 2026 draft class. \u201cTalking about the communication with the coaching staff and our scouts, we\u2019ve been well ahead of this. A lot of it is relationship-based for some of these kids. We\u2019re sending coaches out, working kids out privately, going to pro days, meeting with them at All-Star games.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s all part of the process from first round to seventh round and then priority free agents. The recruiting process has been ongoing. As soon as the draft is over, we\u2019ll attack it. We have a really good plan in place. We have targeted players.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n Zvada, 22, spent his first two college seasons at Arkansas State before transferring to Michigan. In 2024, he went 21-for-22 on field goals, with his only miss a blocked kick. In the storied rivalry game against Ohio State, Zvada hit a 54-yard field goal in the second quarter and then kicked himself into Wolverines lore by nailing a 21-yard field goal with 45 seconds remaining, providing the decisive points in a 13-10 Michigan victory.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\tGo behind the scenes with Big Blue\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSign up for Inside the Giants by Paul Schwartz, a weekly Sports+ exclusive.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\tThank you\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n Zvada did not duplicate that success in 2025, as he hit 17 of 25 field goals. His career-long field goal is 56 yards.<\/p>\n Here are a few other reported undrafted free agent signings for the Giants:<\/p>\n Mann will compete with Zach Triner, a 35-year old, well-traveled long snapper signed after longtime Giants long snapper Casey Kreiter left for the Cardinals. Mann is the grandson of Chuck Mercein, a Giants draft pick in 1965 best known for playing for Vince Lombardi\u2019s Packers in the Ice Bowl victory over the Giants in the 1967 Championship game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Given his background as a former special teams coordinator, and his continued focus on that side of the…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":754891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[39],"tags":[7800,4716,1232,4261,237483,62,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-754890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-michigan-wolverines","tag-new-york-giants","tag-nfl","tag-nfl-draft","tag-nfl-draft-2026","tag-sports","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116472365050936765","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=754890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/754891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=754890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=754890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=754890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"The](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/GettyImages-2239459790.jpg\")
The Giants signed Michigan kicker Dominic Zvada (96) as an undrafted free agent. Icon Sportswire via Getty Images<\/p>\n\n