The New York Giants merry-go-round at placekicker will take another spin as the team has waived Younghoe Koo .<\/p>\n
Koo, a veteran signed early in the year to the practice squad, badly missed on 51- and 51-yard field goal attempts in Sunday\u2019s loss to the Washington Commanders. In the game before that, Koo\u2019s failure to attempt a kick after holder Jamie Gillan slightly bobbled the snap led to Gillan being injured and missing the game against the Commanders.<\/p>\n
The Giants signed Koo, who had been cut after one game by the Atlanta Falcons, when Graham Gano suffered a groin injury. New York, though, chose to have inexperienced second-year kicker Jude McAtamney replace Gano for four games.<\/p>\n
McAtamney was waived after missing three extra points in a two-week span, with Gano then returning to the lineup.<\/p>\n
When Gano then suffered a season-ending neck injury, the Giants turned to Koo. In five games, the 31-year-old eight-year veteran made 4 of 6 field-goal attempts and 11 of 12 extra points.<\/p>\n
The Giants also claimed outside linebacker Caleb Murphy on waivers, filling that roster spot.<\/p>\n
Rookie placekicker Ben Sauls was added to the Giants\u2019 practice squad in early November. That puts the left-footed former University of Pittsburgh kicker in line to make his NFL debut on Sunday against the Minnesota Vikings.<\/p>\n
[Koo\u2019s 2025 stats have been corrected from an earlier version].<\/p>\n
The Giants on Tuesday also designated guard Evan Neal, on IR with a hamstring injury to return. That opens his 21-day practice window, and makes it possible Neal could play at some point before the season ends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York Giants merry-go-round at placekicker will take another spin as the team has waived Younghoe Koo…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":353883,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[25565,349,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-353882","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-new-york-giants-roster","9":"tag-nfl","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353882","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=353882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}