Though Brian Daboll declared Tommy DeVito would stay the Giants’ starter for their Week 13 Thanksgiving matchup in Dallas, the favored New York passer has run into harm hassle.
The Giants announced that DeVito is not traveling with the team to Dallas on Wednesday. A forearm injury has required more testing, with NFL.com’s Mike Garafolo noting the group’s present QB1 is on observe to depart for Dallas later Wednesday. However DeVito might in the end find yourself taking a seat.
It appears to be like like an extended shot DeVito will probably be able to play on a brief week, ESPN.com’s Jordan Raanan reports. That may transfer Drew Lock into the lineup. Lock had been Daniel Jones‘ backup all season, solely to see Daboll look previous him for DeVito in Week 12. Lock, who’s tied to a one-year contract, is now on observe to make his first begin with the Giants. Tim Boyle, signed shortly after the Giants benched Jones, could be Lock’s backup if DeVito is inactive.
DeVito didn’t seem on the Giants’ harm report going into Tuesday however has since been listed as questionable for the group’s Cowboys rematch. The harm is to DeVito’s proper arm, Daboll stated (via SNY’s Connor Hughes), elevating the hurdle for the 2023 UDFA to clear in time for Thursday. A number of Giants reporters, Hughes among them, have speculated DeVito sustained the harm on a play with 11 seconds remaining within the Giants’ 30-7 loss to the Buccaneers.
Lock signed a one-year, $5M cope with the Giants in March. Whereas Seahawks GM John Schneider instructed the transfer was based largely on Lock receiving an opportunity to compete with Jones, that never ended up happening. The group didn’t maintain a contest, and Lock settled right into a backup function for the fourth straight season. A Broncos starter to shut the 2019 season and all through 2020, Lock ended up demoted — for Teddy Bridgewater — after an erratic 2020 slate through which he led the NFL in INTs. He didn’t beat out Geno Smith in 2022, upon being included within the Russell Wilson commerce, via he did re-sign with the Seahawks final yr.
DeVito leads Lock in begins over the previous two seasons, making seven to Lock’s two, however the latter has 23 over the course of his profession. The previous second-round choose additionally led the Seahawks to a Monday-night win over the Eagles final season, with that victory coming as Philadelphia’s protection was mid-freefall. Lock can enhance his 2025 free company inventory by enjoying properly Thursday, in what’s frequently the NFL’s most-watched regular-season recreation, and will definitely affect Daboll to present him extra begins to shut this season.
As Jones has since signed with the Vikings, DeVito and Lock might properly want to supply competence in order for Daboll to keep his job. The Giants are rumored to be prepared to keep both GM Joe Schoen and Daboll, however an unsightly Bucs loss popping out of a bye week didn’t current good optics. With the Jones re-signing backfiring, neither New York power broker should be too comfortable over this season’s homestretch.
