Loading ...Less than 30 minutes into the New York Giants' first day of Organized Team Activities (OTAs) and already one player has gone down with what looks to be serious injury.
While performing individual drills, cornerback Brian Witherspoon, who is coming off of a surgically repaired ACL, went down with an apparent and needed to be immediately helped onto a cart. He was promptly carted off of the field by trainers and staff.
Witherspoon was a lost a season ago after tearing his ACL during the preseason. He had played quite well leading up to that point, and appeared to be a lock for the 53-man roster.
In recent days, Witherspoon had been tweeting about his progress and desire to get back out on the field – to pick up where he had "left off." He had also shared several photos via Instagram of him vigorously studying the Giants' defensive playbook.
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ho was our #4 receiver last year?
I’m asking because I genuinely don’t know the answer. I suppose it was some conglomerate of Thomas, Barden (when healthy) and Jernigan (when healthy).
This year, after the top 2 guys, we have 3 or 4 players who are more than capable of contributing substantially in the 3rd and 4th slots on our depth chart. 2 guys are young (Jernigan and Randle) and 2 guys are veteran/prove-it types (Hixon and Barden). I think there’s a lot to be said for the tremendous depth here. Are these guys going to be ready to post Pro Bowl numbers if Nicks and Cruz go down? No, of course not. But what unit on ANY NFL team can say that their 3rd, 4th and 5th options are as deep as our WR?
(The answer is our DE corps…but that’s another topic)
I’d say Ballard was the #4 receiver, since he was 4th on the team in receptions. The Giants rarely came out in a 4 WR set anyway.
I believe Thomas was generally the first guy off the bench after Mario.
First Spoon… then Molden. And the opening day of OTAs isn’t even finished yet.
I guess we now know why Reese signed 9,726 CBs this offseason.
Ummm…are those individuals in the pic with Brian female?
I think they’re actually some of the aforementioned 9726 CBs currently on the roster. Either that or they’re 2 of the 3820 offensive tackles.
This can’t possibly be a coincidence. Me thinks all these “medical advances” are overblown. Too many repeat tears of the same ligament.
These guys are either being put back on the field way too early or the repaired stuff just ain’t up to snuff.
I think there have been great medical advancements. What’s been overblown is every surgery isn’t successful.
And the CB depth dwindles, Witherspoon with the same ACL, now Molden with the dreaded Hammy injury
Reports out of OTAs are that the starting linebackers were Kiwi (SLB), Blackburn (ILB) and Boley (WLB), while Rivers (SLB), Herzlich (ILB) and Jaiquan (WLB) were the “second team.” Jones got some snaps with the second group as well.
I wonder who are the starting nickel LBs since we player nickel so often. Also, I wonder if we play some sets with Rivers, Boley & Williams instead of the 3 safety look.
You just hope for once we have good injury luck. It’s unfortunate for Witherspoon but he wasn’t a given to make the team. And Molden is kind of a long shot IMO.
always injuries with this team…