The New York Giants have been again of their facility on Monday morning, bagging up their belongings after closing out their 2024 season schedule with a 20-13 loss to the Eagles in Philadelphia on Sunday.
That is the day when the general public normally will get the complete story of what’s been occurring behind the scenes the previous couple of months, resembling accidents.
Dan Duggan of The Athletic is reporting that two of the Giants’ key starters underwent surgical procedure to restore their injured ankles.
S Tyler Nubin had tight-rope surgical procedure for the high-ankle sprain he suffered in Week 14.
OL Jon Runyan had tight-rope surgical procedure for a high-ankle sprain *and* surgical procedure to restore a torn deltoid ligament on his inside ankle. He additionally suffered his accidents in Week 14.
Tight-rope surgical procedure is described as a “minimally invasive surgical process that stabilizes the ankle after an harm” that entails a “tunnel” to be drilled via the tibia and fibula and a “braided polyethylene wire with metallic buttons at every finish” is inserted in that tunnel to safe the ankle in place which accelerates the therapeutic course of.
Runyan was signed as a free agent in March to a three-year, $30 million deal and performed each offensive snap within the staff’s first 12 video games earlier than getting injured within the Giants’ 14-11 loss to New Orleans on December 8.
Nubin, a second-round decide (forty seventh general) out of Minnesota in final yr’s NFL draft, performed each defensive snap in 11 of the Giants’ first 12 video games.
Regardless of lacking the final 4 video games, Nubin completed second on the staff in complete tackles (98) and led all NFL rookie defenders in complete tackles as properly.
