EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — New York Giants second-year broad receiver Kadarius Toney stated he wasn’t disenchanted to play simply seven snaps in a 21-20 season-opening win on the Tennessee Titans on Sunday. His workforce gained, and in the end it wasn’t his choice.
“I receives a commission to play, not coach,” Toney stated Wednesday. “I do not know what the plan was. On the finish of the day, I’ve to arrange as if I used to be going and enjoying each play. I do not know what else to say.”
Toney noticed simply two snaps within the first half. The dynamic playmaker nonetheless wasn’t a much bigger a part of the sport even after rookie broad receiver Wan’Dale Robinson left within the second quarter with a knee damage.
However Toney took the dearth of enjoying time Sunday behind Kenny Golladay, Sterling Shepard, Robinson, David Sills and even Richie James in stride.
“Disenchanted in victory? Disenchanted in a victory?” he stated rhetorically. “You sound loopy.”
How about shocked by the dearth of enjoying time then?
“On the finish of the day, I did my job,” Toney stated. “I receives a commission to do one factor. Do my job, bro.”
Coach Brian Daboll has stated that Toney was a part of a number of particular packages and performs; the Giants simply did not get to lots of them within the victory. Toney completed with two touches — each on rushes within the second half — for 23 yards.
It made his present standing within the broad receiver room obvious. James, not Toney, stepped into a much bigger position when Robinson left the sport, and he led the Giants with 5 receptions on six targets for 59 yards.
“We’ll see what occurs this week,” Daboll stated Monday. “The blokes that have been on the market, now we have confidence in. Now we have confidence in Kadarius. I feel, once more, I’ve talked about this earlier than a few weeks in the past with our receiver place: It is a aggressive scenario. They usually’ll be evaluated on a week-to-week foundation. So, relative to inactives or playtime or quantity of performs, all people’s received to earn their position. One week it is perhaps a complete recreation; one week it is perhaps much less.
“However Kadarius has carried out an excellent job of studying our stuff. I’ve no considerations about him figuring out our data.”
It seems Toney, a first-round choose final yr out of Florida, has to earn his enjoying time. He has not been on the sphere a lot for the reason that Giants’ new regime took command.
Toney had a knee process earlier this yr that saved him out within the spring, and a hamstring downside in coaching camp value him a while, as properly. It follows a rookie yr that was riddled with every kind of accidents and inconsistency. He handled hamstring, ankle, shoulder, quad and stomach accidents. He additionally had COVID-19 twice.
At one level final spring, Toney left observe as a result of he was carrying the wrong-sized cleats.
Toney had 39 catches for 420 yards in 10 video games as a rookie. The Giants must see that he is able to being out there and reliable earlier than handing him a much bigger position. Toney might want to present them he deserves extra enjoying time by working arduous and being on the observe subject.
“If that’s required, that’s what I’ve to do,” he stated. “All people is aware of I had the damage a pair weeks in the past why I wasn’t on the sphere. So I assume it simply [has to do] with that. I do not know what to say.”
Toney, 23, says he is positive bodily at this level. He was a full participant in observe all of final week. He was shifting properly and with none limitations throughout Wednesday’s exercise.
Toney hasn’t acquired any main declarations from the teaching employees concerning the dearth of enjoying time Sunday.
“Nothing. It is extra of simply now we have one other recreation. It is larger than one recreation,” Toney stated. “Now we have a 17-game season. It is all the time the mentality to push ahead.”
Working again Saquon Barkley believes will probably be solely a matter of time earlier than Toney is making larger contributions on the sphere; he is too proficient to not.
“I talked to him,” stated Barkley, a workforce captain. “It wasn’t actually to pump him up. It was all about persevering with to work. Persevering with to observe up the method. … He is a really proficient particular person. I feel you guys can see that when the rock is in his arms.
“As he continues to go, I feel we’ll see him be concerned a bit extra within the offense and making extra performs for us.”
