After seven months of hoping, the family of a former New York Giants defensive back is pleading for help.
Sam Beal, a 2019 third-round pick of the Giants who played three seasons with the team, has been missing in Virginia, and his family put out an APB for any information about what happened to him.
According to Beal’s missing-person’s report he has not been heard from since July 2025 after he dropped off his girlfriend at a family member’s house. He has not been heard from since making a phone call to his girlfriend July 13.
The No. 1 pick of the 2018 NFL supplemental draft, Beal had 27 tackles, one pass defended and a safety in nine games over three seasons from 2019-21.
Sam Beal Is Missing
The former Giants defensive back’s sister Essence Zhane filed a missing-persons report in Virginia and is pleading with any information about her brother.
“We’ve done everything we could on our end to piece things together and at this point we’re in desperate need of support on all ends,” Essence shared in a post on Facebook on Monday. “I’m not here to answer a bunch of why’s and how’s I just need this to land in the right direction to gain some form of answers or closure.
“I’m a Big sister and I need my brother to know that We Love You and miss you and this has been a heavy feeling for months to carry around.”
According to the police report, Beal borrowed his girlfriend’s car and told her he was going to work but instead went to Virginia Beach with only his wallet, the clothes he was wearing and a pair of sandals.
His girlfriend’s car was recovered by a member of her family, and the car had his shoes and socks in it along with some sand in the front seat.
Beal’s family filed the missing-person’s report in October, but it has yet to turn up any information about his whereabouts or what happened.
Sam Beal Played For The Giants
Beal was a highly touted defensive back with Western Michigan. He was born in Grand Rapids, played at Ottawa Hills High School — both football and track and field — then spent three years with the Broncos, earning second-team all-MAC honors for football.
Beal was deemed a first-round prospect for the 2019 NFL Draft but entered the supplemental draft in 2018, where the Giants gave up a third-round pick to select him.
Unfortunately, Beal was injured for most of his pro-football career. He sustained a season-ending shoulder injury in training camp in 2018 that cost him his rookie season then he was placed on injured reserve and missed the first nine games of 2019 with a hamstring injury before returning to finish the season.
Beal then opted out of the 2020 NFL season due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Beal played just three of the Giants’ first nine games in the 2021 season — he was inactive for the other six — before they waived him in November that season.
He was added to the Giants practice squad but was then released Dec. 28, 2021 and did not catch on with any other team.
Family Reveals Troubling News on Former Giants Third-Round Pick