Another day, one other harm.
Giants edge rusher Azeez Ojulari hobbled out of conditioning sprints late in Thursday’s joint observe with the Jets. He wanted two trainers to help him as he limped contained in the constructing.
A supply stated Ojulari has a decrease leg harm. Trainers seemed to be inspecting his decrease proper leg on the sideline earlier than he went in.
There was preliminary optimism Ojulari had averted a worst-case state of affairs however no definitive info was out there on the harm’s nature or any timetable.
The Giants and Jets, mockingly, had scrapped their end-of-practice, two-minute drill interval in favor of conditioning sprints to keep at bay additional accidents. Then Ojulari pulled up anyway.
“Just from a numbers game, on both sides of the ball, we were supposed to do a two-minute drill at the end,” Jets coach Robert Saleh stated after observe. “And I used to be like, you understand what? Let’s simply situation our guys fairly than going by one other two-minute interval.
“They’re [The Giants are] down some receivers, we’re down some guys, too,” Saleh added. “Just wanted to — from the overall health of the team — that was the reason for it.”
Brian Daboll’s staff had a lightweight spring and early camp workload, they usually’ve been slammed by accidents thus far in camp.
Ojulari, 22, final yr’s second-round select of Georgia, started coaching camp on the non-football harm listing because of a hamstring harm. His first observe was Aug. 14.
He is the fourth Giants edge-rusher to get harm within the final 11 days.
Elerson Smith has a boot on his proper foot after an Aug. 14 harm. Veteran Jihad Ward simply rejoined the fold on Thursday after an undisclosed Aug. 14 harm of his personal.
No. 5 total decide Kayvon Thibodeaux sprained his proper MCL in Sunday’s preseason recreation towards the Cincinnati Bengals, an harm that would value him the Week 1 opener in Tennessee.
And now Ojulari is banged up, too.
JONES & SILLS STILL ON TARGET
Daniel Jones performed properly towards the Jets’ first-team protection. Receiver David Sills remained his favourite goal.
The Jets’ line of defense appeared to get inside for 3 sacks, two by John Franklin-Myers — one towards proper sort out Evan Neal, one towards proper guard Mark Glowinski.
But none of Jones’ passes hit the bottom.
Sills bailed him out on a low throw over the center with an ideal catch. And Jones’ solely incompletion was a pink zone interception by Jets nook Bryce Hall on a go supposed for Kenny Golladay.
“I feel like we’re kind of getting in a groove right now,” Sills stated of the Giants’ offense. “I feel like we’re on the same page. That’s something that’s very encouraging, especially going against someone other than our guys.”
Jones, Sills and Golladay stayed after observe and labored on pink zone throws, together with the fade that didn’t hook up with Golladay. It’s widespread to see the Giants’ No. 1 QB put in additional work.
WAN’DALE SITS OUT
Rookie receiver Wan’Dale Robinson was unexpectedly held out of Thursday’s 11-on-11 interval. The second-round decide additionally sat out conditioning sprints with wideout Darius Slayton, who has been coping with an undisclosed harm of his personal.
Robinson had a black sleeve overlaying his left calf. Richie James practiced in Robinson’s place, since Sterling Shepard was dialed again in his second observe since final season’s Achilles tear.
Kadarius Toney took two reps in 11-on-11 and ran some 7-on-7 routes towards Jets DBs.
Slayton practiced in full for the primary time since sustaining an undisclosed harm on Aug. 11 within the preseason opener at New England. He made an ideal, one-handed catch down the left sideline on a go from No. 2 QB Tyrod Taylor.
GOOD ENERGY, NO FIGHTS
This was the primary joint Giants-Jets observe since 2005. Daboll and Saleh each stated they’d prefer to make this an annual custom.
The first step was to keep away from any big fights on Thursday, they usually succeeded. Daboll had talked to his staff about that particularly.
“Show respect for each other, work hard together to improve and play football,” the Giants’ coach stated earlier than observe. “Not interested in going to see a UFC or boxing matches or anything like that, although I love both of those. Just good, competitive football.”
Saleh cracked on the media: “We don’t need any fighting. I know you guys all came looking for a fight, but I have a lot of respect for Daboll. And we want to make a habit out of this.”
Sills stated there was “a little bit more adrenaline” approaching Thursday’s observe.
“We were pretty hyped up,” he stated. “We had music going in the meetings. Guys were excited about it. And I think we kept that energy through the whole practice.”
Giants nook Olaijah Griffin had an interception of Jets QB Joe Flacco.
The Jets plan to play their starters between 1 / 4 and a half in Sunday’s 1 p.m. preseason finale. Daboll has not introduced the Giants’ plans but.
BLUE ADDS HUDSON
The Giants signed free agent TE Tanner Hudson and waived OL Chris Owens. Hudson, 27, has 5 catches in 22 appearances with the Bucs and 49ers. The Giants want higher blocking at tight finish. The hope is he may help in that space.
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