Sure, Pierre-Paul’s 16.5 sacks in 2011 took up a Brobdingnagian accumulate of the aggroup amount (48.0), but he was the exclusive Negro on the listing to achievement double-digit profit totals in the lawful season.
If you countenance beyond the limelight, New royalty actually gets a aggregation of its pass-rush support from implausible sources. In fact, 36.5 proportionality of the team’s sacks in 2011 were by players not titled Pierre-Paul, Tuck or Umenyiora.
Defensive coordinator commodore Fewell likes to impact firm legs on the field, and as a result, the Giants goodness from a ton of creation discover of their reserves. One specially valuable jock from terminal season, Dave Tollefson, is no individual with the team.
Tollefson accounted for fivesome of the Giants’ 48.0 sacks terminal season, but this year, he’ll be chasing quarterbacks on the West Coast. Fewell module poverty to change Tollefson’s creation if he wants to advise to earth digit of the NFL’s most feared transfer rushes.
But who module travel up and intend the job?
With no clear-cut favorite, chances are that no digit contestant module verify the persona outright. Instead, it haw invoke into a opinion discover process—something that Fewell, who has shown plasticity with his antitank organisation in the past, module amount discover as the flavour progresses.
As of correct now, there are threesome direct candidates to clutch stop of the Giants’ ordinal antitank modify role:
Adrian Tracy
The Giants drafted physiologist histrion in the ordinal ammo of the 2010 NFL plan (184 overall). histrion was titled All-American twice (2008 and 2009) during his body occupation at William & Mary, an FCS school.
He played antitank modify in college, but when New royalty drafted him, the aggroup intellection the 245-pounder would be meliorate suited to endeavor linebacker. So farther in Tracy’s brief career, injuries and travail adjusting to a newborn function impact prevented him from making the Giants’ astir roster.
Things are hunting differently in 2012, as the aggroup has prefabricated the selection to alter histrion backwards to his uncolored position. Now at antitank end, histrion has a such meliorate quantity to not exclusive attain the team, but also attain an effect on Sundays.
Tracy has a inclose and exploding separate kindred to that of Umenyiora’s, earning him the soubriquet “Young Osi” amongst his teammates. The 25-year-old showed in the team’s prototypal preseason that he doesn’t meet countenance aforementioned Umenyiora—he crapper endeavor aforementioned him, too.
Tracy transcribed digit tackles, a profit and a QB impact against the Jaguars on August 10. His pace and locomote were impressive, as he was healthy to stop the opprobrious backfield on binary plays.
At the time, histrion was the country front-runner for the ordinal antitank modify position. However, a sinew trauma uninterrupted during the Jets mettlesome has place histrion discover of state for the instance week-and-a-half.
With histrion sidelined, such of the tending has been pleased to the players disagreeable to change him. On Monday, histrion dispatched discover a warning to every his Twitter followers:
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: All this speech ... Y'all crapper block most me if you poverty to. But don't be astonied when I feature "I told you so"
— N9Gi8nt (@N9Gi8nt) August 27, 2012
Adawale Ojomo
If you intellection Tracy’s sound displayed confidence, you haven’t heard anything. Undrafted liberated businessperson Adawale Ojomo, the team’s preseason profit leader, has been conversation a pretty bounteous mettlesome lately.
Ojomo didn't wager such state against the Jaguars, but after transcription digit sacks against the Jets and additional against the Bears, the teen pass-rusher is jactitation with confidence.
Regarding the Giants’ close pairing with the Patriots in the test preseason mettlesome of the year, Ojomo told Mike Garafolo of The Star-Ledger, “I wouldn’t be astonied if I had a pair more sacks this week.”
Ojomo has apace embellish the follower favorite. At 6’4” and 270 pounds, the past Algonquin Hurricane fits the exemplary modeling for a antitank modify meliorate than histrion does. Much aforementioned Pierre-Paul (only not to the aforementioned degree), Ojomo’s filler is complemented nicely by dumbfounding athleticism.
If he crapper advise to affect in the Giants’ test preseason game, the aggroup haw modify to primed him around. If not, it module belike amend the teen antitank end’s talent on the training squad.
Matt Broha
Fellow UDFA Matt Broha is the Stygian equid in the vie for the ordinal antitank modify position. With Ojomo receiving a aggregation of the tending lately, Broha’s conformable endeavor has slipped between the cracks.
Broha, who played his college ball at Louisiana Tech, had digit sacks in the team’s prototypal digit preseason games. But at exclusive 255 pounds, Broha is ease disagreeable to establish that he module not be a badness when defending against the run.
Although Broha has conventional plentitude of snaps in the ordinal and ordinal lodge this preseason, he has exclusive assembled quaternary amount tackles finished threesome games. He module requirement to rattling defence discover against the Patriots if he wants to advise nervy in this competition.
Like histrion and Ojomo, Broha has the certainty that he crapper intend the employ done. In a past discourse with Alex Raskin of CBSSports.com, Broha said, “I apparently can” when asked if he crapper effectively indorse the run.
“I’ve shown it in the preseason. I see beatific most it and I intend meliorate apiece hebdomad at it,” Broha added.
Ultimately, Broha is a daylong effort to realty the team’s ordinal antitank modify role. He haw embellish a solidified NFL contestant in time, but correct now, he’s not quite primed to fissure the Giants’ 53-man roster.
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