The New York Giants will end up the 2024 preseason schedule because the away crew versus the New York Jets this Saturday night time at MetLife Stadium.
With Daniel Jones unlikely to play and Drew Lock (indirect) relegated to “emergency” obligation as per head coach Brian Daboll, the workload falls to the one different quarterback on the Giants’ roster — Tommy DeVito.
On Thursday, Daboll was requested if DeVito would “go the entire method” and take each snap on Saturday night time.
“We’ll see what we do with everyone else,” Daboll stated, including {that a} fourth quarterback won’t be signed.
What they’re going to do is sit Jones and play DeVito, that’s what. Lock will costume and the Giants will cross their fingers they will get by way of the sport with out utilizing him.
DeVito is poised to get a pleasant, lengthy look on this sport. Let’s name him the “solely man up.”
If issues break proper for the Giants this 12 months, it is perhaps the final time we see him in bounds along with his helmet strapped this season.
“I haven’t been informed but, however as quickly as I’m informed, I’m able to go at all times,” DeVito informed reporters on Thursday. “It’s a part of the job whenever you come into it, you by no means know what’s going to occur. I handled that final 12 months, being the subsequent man up. Every time Dabes tells me I’m able to go, I’ll be on the market and play.”
And prepared he will likely be. Within the Giants’ preseason opener, DeVito was known as on early when Lock went down within the first quarter and led the Giants on two scoring drives. Final week, the Giants began Jones for the primary half and DeVito was left to play with the backups for the second half of the sport. Issues didn’t go as nicely.
This week, with the Jets sitting a lot of their key gamers, he ought to get a good shake underneath heart. He welcomes the work.
“There’s nothing like sport reps, particularly for a quarterback. Observe is nice and all, but it surely’s a little bit totally different whenever you’re capable of get hit, particularly being in sport conditions and actually coping with them,” DeVito stated. “The 2-minute drill and the whole lot we do out right here is nice, but it surely’s a little bit totally different whenever you’re on the market doing it on the sector. To have that underneath my belt, which not lots of people get to have, not to mention a rookie, I’m very grateful for that have that I had. It positively helped me now, particularly between the years.”
The Giants nearly have to hold three quarterbacks this season, so there’s no actual drama about whether or not or not DeVito will make the roster.
“It’s not my determination. It’s not in my fingers,” he stated. “So for me, it’s simply to proceed, each time I’m out on the sector, present why I proved actually to myself, before everything, that I belong someplace within the NFL. Truthfully, I wish to be with the Giants… however after I’m on the market on the sector, I simply proceed to attempt to get out and get higher every play and on daily basis.”
Enjoying nicely on Saturday night time will give each DeVito and the Giants some peace of thoughts, although.
