{"id":297438,"date":"2025-11-17T17:13:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T17:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/297438\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T17:13:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T17:13:09","slug":"why-was-abdul-carter-benched-for-packers-1st-series-latest-details-on-giants-rookie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/297438\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Was Abdul Carter Benched for Packers’ 1st Series? Latest Details on Giants Rookie"},"content":{"rendered":"

New York Giants interim head coach Mike Kafka told reporters<\/a> that rookie edge-rusher Abdul Carter didn’t play the first series of Sunday’s 27-20 loss against the Green Bay Packers due to a coach’s decision.<\/p>\n

He didn’t explain the reasoning for the decision:<\/p>\n

However, Dan Duggan of The Athletic reported Carter was benched for missing a walk-through, as he reportedly was asleep at the team’s facility at the time:<\/p>\n

Duggan added that Carter being late to meeting was a “trend” that former head coach Brian Daboll let slide.<\/p>\n

Carter didn’t add many details<\/a> when asked about the matter after the game, saying only that he made a mistake and those decisions have consequences. <\/p>\n

The 22-year-old featured heavily<\/a> after the first series, playing every other defensive snap of the game while registering a tackle and quarterback hit. <\/p>\n

Statistically, it’s been a bit of a disappointing rookie season for Carter, who has just 0.5 sacks and a tackle for loss. The Giants selected Carter with the No. 3 overall pick in April’s NFL draft, pairing him with veteran Brian Burns and 2022 first-rounder Kayvon Thibodeaux in the hopes of creating a fearsome pass rush. <\/p>\n

While Burns has had an excellent season (13 sacks), Carter and Thibodeaux (2.5 sacks) have gotten to the quarterback less consistently. <\/p>\n

Thibodeaux (shoulder) was among a number of key New York players who missed Sunday’s game due to injury, which likely led to the heavy workload for Carter following the first series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York Giants interim head coach Mike Kafka told reporters that rookie edge-rusher Abdul Carter didn’t play the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297439,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-297438","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-nfl","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}