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Getty Images Over the last decade, it’s hard to tell whether the Giants are working on a long-term plan or a short term plan. Or sometimes, if they had a plan at all. But Giants co-owner John Mara has registered his preference in the hottest debate of the summer, saying he hopes first-round...

Getty Images Giants wide receiver Amba Etta-Tawo was already hurt. Now he’s out for the year. The team announced that the journeyman wideout tore his Achilles in practice today. He didn’t play in the preseason opener against the Jets because of a hamstring injury. Etta-Tawo played for two...

Getty Images The Giants sent cornerback Deandre Baker for an MRI on Sunday after reported feeling something in his knee while warming up for practice. Baker isn’t taking part in practice on Monday, but he is back as a spectator after getting a diagnosis that is, given the season-ending...

Getty Images Rookie Daniel Jones needs reps. Those reps won’t be at the expense of Eli Manning, though. Giants coach Pat Shurmur said Monday that Manning will play the next two preseason games. “Typically, I like to play all of them in every game, except maybe the last game where you wouldn’t...

Getty Images One of the Giants’ three first-round picks is headed for an MRI on Sunday. Head coach Pat Shurmur said that cornerback Deandre Baker “felt something” in his knee while warming up for practice and went to go get an MRI rather than remaining on site for the session. Baker was the...

Getty Images The Broncos placed rookie tight end Austin Fort on injured reserve Friday, the team announced Friday night. Fort tore an anterior cruciate ligament in Thursday’s preseason game against the Seahawks. Denver signed offensive lineman Adam Bisnowaty in a corresponding roster move...

Getty Images Giants coach Pat Shurmur told those looking to see a full-fledged quarterback competition to “slow your roll” after Thursday night’s preseason opener. Eli Manning heard boos at MetLife Stadium after going three-and-out to open the game and Daniel Jones earned cheers by going...

Jets coach Adam Gase became the first coach to win a pass interference challenge. Gase threw his red challenge flag on an incomplete pass on third-and-eight with 8:56 remaining in the third quarter. Gase asked for a review of Giants defensive back Corey Ballentine;s contact against Jets...

Getty Images Giants coach Pat Shurmur doesn’t want to hear about a quarterback controversy. After rookie Daniel Jones put on a show in Thursday night’s preseason opener, Shurmur was asked what he would say to fans who think it’s time for Jones to replace Eli Manning. “I think, ‘Slow your...

Getty Images Giants cornerback Corey Ballentine said the best way he could honor his fallen friend was to play well. He’s off to a good start. The sixth-round pick had an interception and a 40-yard kickoff return Thursday, his first game since he was shot on draft night, in an incident in...

Getty Images Giants safety Antoine Bethea had a pithy explanation of why the owners want an 18-game schedule and the players do not: It affects the owners’ bottom line, and it affects the players’ bodies. Bethea said that the people who will suffer increased injury risk if the players are...

Cowboys defensive end Robert Quinn had surgery to repair his broken hand this week and the hope was that Quinn would recover in time to play in the first game of the regular season. Quinn won’t be playing in that game whether the hand is healed or not. The NFL announced on Thursday that Quinn...

Let the quarterback controversy begin. If we can tell anything from two series of preseason action — and we admittedly can’t tell much — Giants rookie Daniel Jones is going to give Eli Manning a run for his money to be the Giants’ starting quarterback this season. Manning started tonight’s...

Fans who showed up to tonight’s Jets-Giants game didn’t get much football before they were told to leave their seats. With 1:23 remaining in the first quarter, lightning was seen in the area and the game was delayed. “Attention please: Severe weather is imminent,” a message on the scoreboard...

Getty Images Giants wide receiver Sterling Shepard won’t play Thursday because of the broken thumb he suffered in practice, but he said he’ll be ready when it matters. Via Stefan Bondy of the New York Daily News, Shepard said he was “95 to 100 percent” sure he’d be ready for the regular...

Getty Images The Giants will open the preseason on Thursday night with their annual summer tussle with the Jets. Among the memorable moments from past exhibition outings between the teams was when Eli Manning wound up bloodied after hitting his head on Jets safety Jim Leonhard after a hit by...

Getty Images Soon, Giants receiver Golden Tate will move another major step toward learning whether he’ll miss the first 25 percent of the 2019 season. Ralph Vacchiano of SNY reports that Tate’s appeal of a failed PED test will be heard on Tuesday in New York. The good news for Tate is that...

Getty Images Giants wide receiver Sterling Shepard is recovering from a fractured left thumb, but that has not stopped him from limited participation in practices over the last week or so. Monday’s practice session was a bit less limited than the team would have liked. Shepard had a pass from...

Getty Images This year, trick-shot artist Alex Tanney will be trying to pull a rabbit out of his hat. Or some other orifice. As explained by Tom Rock of Newsday, Tanney is helping the two quarterbacks ahead of him on the depth chart, Eli Manning and Daniel Jones, get ready for the season. More...

Getty Images Austin Droogsma initially thought an invitation to Giants rookie minicamp was a prank because he was a shot putter in college and didn’t play football. The Giants really wanted Droogsma to work out, though, and they saw enough potential to keep him around through the offseason and...