The New York Giants were expected to turn to Cade York as their starting kicker after Randy Bullock was placed on season-ending injured reserve (IR) earlier this week, but that’s not going to happen.
On Friday, York was also placed on IR with a quad injury, becoming the third Giants kicker lost for the season (Bullock, Graham Gano).
“It’s a lot,” special teams coordinator Thomas McGaughey said on Wednesday prior to York’s injury. “But I told you this early in the season, I said you don’t want to get on the kicker train, because the destination is unknown. Because you don’t know. Once that train gets rolling, you never know where it’s going to end. But it is what it is, we’ll make the adjustments, we won’t make any excuses, just keep it moving.”
With no kickers remaining in tow, the Giants were forced to go out and sign one.
10 days after he was released by the Los Angeles Rams, the Giants have added a familiar foe in veteran Mason Crosby.
The 39-year-old Crosby, who was the NFL’s leading scorer as a rookie, was a sixth-round pick of the Green Bay Packers in the 2007 NFL draft. He spent his entire career with the organization prior to the aforementioned stint with the Rams.
In 258 career games, Crosby has connected on 395 of his 485 field goal attempts (81.4%) and 733 of his 753 point-after attempts (97.3).
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