{"id":58032,"date":"2025-12-02T02:29:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T02:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/58032\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T02:29:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T02:29:08","slug":"ny-giants-rookie-abdul-carter-benched-again-by-mike-kafka-vs-patriots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/58032\/","title":{"rendered":"NY Giants rookie Abdul Carter benched again by Mike Kafka vs. Patriots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">New York Giants rookie edge defender Abdul Carter, who was benched by interim head coach Mike Kafka for one series after missing a walk through practice before the Week 11 game against the Green Bay Packers, did not start Monday night against the New England Patriots. The ESPN broadcast called that a \u201ccoach\u2019s decision.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Carter was the No. 3 overall pick in the 2025 NFL Draft. He was expected to be a difference-maker as a pass rusher. While he has created pressure, Carter has only a half-sack in 12 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Chauncey Golston started on the edge in Carter\u2019s place. The Giants rotated Tomon Fox in during sub packages.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Carter entered the game during the Patriots\u2019 first drive of the second quarter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">There have been unconfirmed reports that Carter committed a number of rules violations that went unchecked this season before Brian Daboll was fired after Week 10.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">We will see how long this benching lasts, and what Kafka has to say about this incident after the game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York Giants rookie edge defender Abdul Carter, who was benched by interim head coach Mike Kafka for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58033,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,16709,9093,11,10],"class_list":["post-58032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-giants-game-information","tag-new-york-giants-roster","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}