All three Giants offensive starters who bought damage Sunday in Jacksonville will miss significant time, head coach Brian Daboll stated Monday.
Rookie tight finish Daniel Bellinger’s season may very well be in jeopardy attributable to an eye fixed damage that can require surgical procedure. Right sort out Evan Neal and left guard Ben Bredeson are each “week to week” with knee accidents.
Neal has a sprained left MCL, based on a supply. Bellinger has a fracture round his eye socket and septum, per ESPN, after getting poked within the eye by Jaguars CB Tre Herndon.
“I think it’s probably too early to say when I expect him back,” Daboll stated of Bellinger. “We’ll see how this thing goes. I’m hopeful for [him to return], but you never know when things like this happen.”
With Neal, it’s excellent news that he has a sprain and never a tear. He nonetheless may miss a month or so, nonetheless, provided that ESPN is asking it a grade two sprain and Neal is a 6-7, 350-pound sort out with a decrease physique damage.
Bredeson’s particular damage will not be but recognized. Rookie Josh Ezeudu changed Bredeson on Sunday, and third-year professional Tyre Phillips performed in Neal’s stead.
Chris Myarick and Tanner Hudson are the one tight ends remaining on the energetic roster with Bellinger out, although the Giants did signal Lawrence Cager lately to their observe squad. Hudson had an enormous wrap on his left knee postgame Sunday, too.
DABOLL NOT SAYING MUCH
Daboll wouldn’t say whether or not the Giants’ 6-1 file has made him and GM Joe Schoen extra keen so as to add reinforcements for a late season run.
“Our process has been the same since we’ve been here: control what you can control, improve each day,” Daboll stated. “Obviously we always look to improve any area of the roster we can each week. We have players that come in and work out. And that’s pretty consistent with how we’ve been since we’ve been here. Our record is what our record is, but it’s our preparation and consistency of how we do things that are important to us.”
The Giants solely had $3.3 million in wage cap house as of Monday afternoon, per the NFL gamers’ affiliation’s database. So any signings should proceed to be for minimal cash.
FIRED UP FOR DANIEL
After Daniel Jones’ 1-yard speeding TD in Sunday’s fourth quarter, FOX cameras caught Daboll pushing QB coach Shea Tierney apart to talk with a fired-up Jones on the sideline. Daboll stated: “[QB coach] Shea [Tierney] & I were both about to tell him the same thing, and I just wanted to tell him before Shea. Shea was on top of it. It was positive. I just wanted to get to him, talk to him, then get back on the headset with the other side of the ball. He just made a really good play on that quarterback sneak, made a good decision and had a good drive. So it was really all positive.”
RECORD DAY
Jones (107) and Saquon Barkley (110) turned the primary QB-RB Giants duo ever to each run for greater than 100 yards in a single recreation on Sunday. According to the Elias Sports Bureau, Jones’ profession excessive 107 yards are the fourth-highest complete by a quarterback in Giants historical past and essentially the most for a participant at that place in 76 years.
Harry Newman ran for 114 yards towards Green Bay on Nov. 11, 1934 and 108 yards at Boston on Oct. 8, 1933. Frank Filchock additionally had 108 speeding yards on Oct. 6, 1946 at Pittsburgh.
Barkley and Jones turned simply the third tandem of rushers to every prime 100 speeding yards in a recreation in Giants historical past. The different two occasions it was operating backs Ahmad Bradshaw and Brandon Jacobs on Dec. 23, 2007 towards Buffalo (Bradshaw 151, Jacobs 143) and Dec. 13, 2010 towards Minnesota (Bradshaw 116, Jacobs 103).
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