WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W.Va. — If there was a title to be bestowed, Willie Taggart would hold it.

Call him Senior Harbaugh Analyst.

Taggart is entering his first training camp as the Giants’ running backs coach but in many ways this is same-old, same-old for him. His affiliation with the Harbaugh family runs far deeper than his relationship with John Harbaugh, the man who four years ago brought Taggart into the NFL after he traversed a winding road across various college coaching stops.

When the Giants reached out and handed Harbaugh a five-year, $100 million contract, desperate for him to save the franchise — that is not hyperbole — they entrusted him to assemble as high-quality a staff as there is in the entire NFL. Harbaugh asked several of his loyalists from his time in Baltimore to join him in this new endeavor. Taggart is one of those, to be sure, and he is much more than that.

He is an expert on all things Harbaugh, with strong ties to Jack (the father) and sons John and Jim. Taggart knows Jackie (Jack’s wife) and Joanie (John and Jim’s sister). Tending to the running backs for John is Taggart’s current responsibility but not his only expertise. He is part of John’s new project because he is a big believer in the roots and foundation of this particular coaching tree.

“I think it’s just a Harbaugh thing,’’ Taggart told the Post back in the spring. “It started with Jack and Jackie and Jim and Joanie. I think it’s a Harbaugh thing. And what I mean by that is when it comes to coaching you either get one or the other, forcefulness or sincerity and not many coaches have both. When you’re dealing with the Harbaughs they have them both, they know how to do them and do them both very well.

“They’re great with people and as a player you appreciate that. You appreciate when a coach can get on you and also when a coach can pat you on the back and say you did a good job as well.’’

Getting on players and patting them on the back is part of it and it all intensifies this week, as John Harbaugh opens up his first training camp with the Giants. The first practice at the Greenbrier resort is Wednesday, the start of a whirlwind 10 practices in 11 days. For those who believe John Harbaugh is energized in his new gig, what is yet to come will be even more invigorating.

Like Taggart, Dennis Johnson was given his first NFL coaching assignment by Harbaugh, hiring Johnson in 2024 as the Ravens’ defensive line coach. Like Taggart, Johnson accepted the request to accompany his boss from Baltimore to East Rutherford, N.J.

“It meant the world to me for him to ask me to come here and join him,’’ Johnson told the Post.

Johnson’s first season with the Ravens was Harbaugh’s 17th, meaning the program was fully established. Being part of this Giants’ construction has a different feel to it.

“When I got to Baltimore it was obviously on the back end, I didn’t see how he built it up,’’ Johnson, 37, said. “Now I get to come to New York and see it from the ground level and how to build a plan to make it fly where you want it to go. For me that’s a blessing, just be around and to witness that.’’

Chris Horton has witnessed that for the past 12 years on Harbaugh’s staff, the past six as the Ravens’ special teams coordinator. It was wholly expected that Harbaugh would pluck Horton out of Baltimore and he did, adding the title of assistant head coach to his Giants’ job description.

Horton, 41, always gets a kick out of watching and hearing Harbaugh at the annual introductory team meeting. “Just outstanding,’’ Horton said. “Him in front of the room, in front of the guys, you see why the players respect him and the players love him. He’s about as authentic as they come.’’

This time around, standing in front of the Giants for the first time to open up the spring offseason workout program, Horton noticed a subtle difference.

“Did I see a little more juice, more pop?’’ Horton said. “He’s excited. We’re excited. You know, we’re excited to be here. We’re the New York Football Giants. We’re all excited to be here. He was ready to go. He was fired up. It was an awesome team meeting.’’

A snippet of that meeting was revealed by the Giants via social media and the outside reaction was tepid, at best, with Harbaugh’s “This is the New York Giants sitting in this room!’’ exhortation falling flat with some viewers. Players, though, seem to be energized thus far, eager for someone to lead them out of the wilderness of losing.

There will be meetings galore during training camp and Harbaugh’s enthusiasm is renowned — it is a Harbaugh trait, after all. After 18 years, his relationship with Ravens owner Steve Bisciotti grew stale. Missing out on the playoffs with a loss to the rival Steelers on the final day of the 2025 regular season was the nudge that pushed Harbaugh onto the free agent coaching market and the Giants instantly made him their No. 1 priority.

Taggart, 49, was a record-breaking high school quarterback in Bradenton, Fla. and went on to play for Western Kentucky, recruited by Jim Harbaugh to play for head coach Jack Harbaugh. Taggart spent three years at Stanford (2007-09) as the running backs coach for the head coach – Jim Harbaugh. Taggart ended up as the head coach at five different colleges – Western Kentucky, South Florida, Oregon, Florida State and Florida Atlantic – and when he wanted to break into the NFL, John Harbaugh was there in 2023 to hand over Derrick Henry and the other Ravens running backs to Taggart.

Still together, now with the Giants, it is more of the same.

“He’s John,’’ Taggart said. “He’s got a lot of energy, he’s very excited, you see it every day, his message to the team has been awesome and it’s been great to see our guys pick up on his message daily and absorb it and go out and try to deliver on how coach Harbaugh wants things done. It’s been great to see him reenergized and really getting after it with the guys.

“He’s a damn good football coach who can really motivate people, players but also teach them how to do things. What you get from John is realness. You talk to our players, they appreciate that more than anything. They don’t get any BS. they know they’re not going to get any BS when it comes to John Harbaugh.’’