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Getty Images Sterling Shepard no longer is wearing the yellow non-contact jersey, having ditched it for Sunday’s practice. It is another step in Shepard’s return from a fractured left thumb, even if the Giants receiver didn’t think it was a big deal. “I didn’t think the yellow jersey was...

Getty Images It hasn’t been the best of summers for Giants wide receiver Golden Tate. Tate was suspended for four games in July for violating the league’s performance-enhancing drug policy and then had his appeal of that ban rejected by an independent arbitrator. Tate will miss the opening...

Getty Images Offensive guard Kyle Long got into a fight at practice Wednesday. When the Bears left for Friday’s preseason game against the Giants, Long wasn’t with them, Patrick Finley of the Chicago Sun Times reports. There was no word for the reason, something reporters surely will ask coach...

Getty Images Kyle Long didn’t travel to New Jersey for Friday night’s game with the rest of the Bears, but he won’t be the only member of the team who isn’t playing against the Giants. The Bears announced that 25 other players will sit out the team’s second preseason game of the summer. The...

Daniel Jones had almost as many fumbles as he had incompletions in the first half of the Giants’ game against the Bears on Friday night. A week after going 5-for-5 for 67 yards and a touchdown, Jones went 11-for-14 for 161 yards and a touchdown. His touchdown was a strike to T.J. Jones in the...

Getty Images Giants rookie quarterback Daniel Jones had a second consecutive solid preseason game on Friday night, surprising those who derided the Giants for drafting him with the sixth overall pick. Giants coach Pat Shurmur is not surprised. “People outside of our building seem surprised...

Giants coach Pat Shurmur said “we’ll just have to see” when asked earlier this week if Saquon Barkley would play in the preseason. Now, we know the star running back won’t play in tonight’s preseason game. That’s the report from Kim Jones of the NFL. That leaves next week for Barkley to get...

The plan for Daniel Jones last week was more than the five passes, eight plays and 4 minutes and 23 seconds of action the Giants rookie quarterback got in the preseason opener. But a weather delay prevented Jones from seeing more time. “The plan, obviously, last week was to play him longer,”...

Getty Images The NFL’s current compensation system does not fairly compensate running backs. An effort has been launched to change that. Via Bloomberg.com, a petition has been filed with the National Labor Relations Board to create a separate union for NFL running backs. In a petition dated...

Getty Images The Giants suspended safety Kamrin Moore after he was arrested on domestic violence charges last month, but Moore’s path back to the field may be open this week. Jordan Raanan of ESPN.com reports that a New Jersey judge ordered the domestic violence complaint against Moore be...

Getty Images Giants co-owner John Mara justifies the decisions to trade receiver Odell Beckham Jr. and defensive end Olivier Vernon and to let safety Landon Collins leave via free agency by explaining that the team needed to do something big. “[L]et’s face it,” Mara recently said, “we’ve had...

Getty Images Running back Saquon Barkley played in the Giants’ preseason game as a rookie and then sat out the next three games after hurting his hamstring in practice. The lack of summer game action didn’t hurt Barkley come the regular season. The rookie posted 2,028 yards from scrimmage and...

Getty Images Before free agency started in March, we put together a list of the top 100 free agents in the league and many of those players found jobs in the first days of the new league year. Those that lingered were snapped up one by one with only a few still on the board by the time the...

Getty Images The Giants used the sixth overall pick of the draft on quarterback Daniel Jones this April, but they’ve made no secret of their desire to keep Eli Manning as the starter for at least the 2019 season. General Manager Dave Gettleman mused about sitting the quarterback for three...

Getty Images Golden Tate is “definitely looking into” suing the doctor who prescribed the fertility drug that led to his four-game suspension. Tate said he used clomiphene, a banned substance under the league’s performance enhancing drug policy. The doctor who prescribed the medication told...

Getty Images The Giants aren’t expected to have cornerbacks Deandre Baker or Sam Beal for Friday night’s game against the Bears as both players have been out of practice with injuries in recent days. That likely played a role in the team’s move to add a healthy body to their secondary on...

Getty Images The Giants claimed a player off waivers Wednesday, and co-owner John Mara would probably consider it a perfect situation if he never took a snap this year. According to Mike Garafolo of NFL Network, the Giants claimed former Raiders punter Johnny Townsend off waivers. The Raiders...

The news was surprising Wednesday when tight end Scott Simonson‘s name appeared on the waiver wire. It turns out, though, that the Giants have not really moved on from Simonson. The team cleaned up a “bookkeeping” issue with Simonson’s contract, via multiple reports. They actually re-signed...

Getty Images Giant co-owner John Mara admitted yesterday that he’d prefer to see rookie Daniel Jones sit all year, because that would likely mean Eli Manning had the team winning. Of course, winning would be new around there, and hardly expected after offseason departures of a number of stars...

Getty Images The Giants will start the season without wide receiver Golden Tate. The NFL announced today that Tate has been suspended for the first four games of the regular season for violating the league policy on performance-enhancing substances. Tate had previously acknowledged that he...