Reese\u2019s punishing play style has been on display since the Giants selected the Ohio State product with the fifth pick in this year\u2019s draft. The most recent example came early in Tuesday\u2019s practice when the Giants ran a nine-on-seven drill. The inside run period isn\u2019t for the faint of heart, as evidenced by the collision between Reese and running back Tyrone Tracy Jr. on the second rep of the period.<\/p>\n
Reese made the stop in the hole and stayed on the field for the first-team defense\u2019s final two reps of the period. When he left the field as the second-team defense took over, Reese required an equipment change.<\/p>\n
\u201c(Tracy\u2019s) helmet was able to get in mine, and then the top of my face mask pulled down,\u201d Reese said. \u201cIt was a big collision. They just switched my face mask. It wasn\u2019t nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n
With the bars on the side of the new face mask better protecting his swollen nose, Reese didn\u2019t miss a rep in a practice shorter than the typical session coach John Harbaugh conducted during a grueling training camp.<\/p>\n
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With Reese making a strong first impression on teammates and coaches, I focused on him throughout Tuesday\u2019s practice. Here\u2019s a minute-by-minute account of my observations:<\/p>\n
1:23 p.m.: Reese walks onto the practice field and starts his warm-up as players are scattered in various groups. Harbaugh has adopted afternoon practices in recent years because he believes it best allows players to prepare to perform at their highest level.<\/p>\n
Reese arrived at the facility at 6:30 a.m. and had breakfast \u2014 eggs and chicken sausage \u2014 before an hour-long weight-lifting session that started at 7:30. From there was a team meeting, a position meeting and a walk-through. Reese spends an hour break before practice to do something like using a red light therapy bed to activate his body.<\/p>\n
1:28 p.m.: The majority of players assemble on one field for a special teams period to open practice. Reese is a starter on the punt team, which is the unit special teams coordinator Chris Horton is focusing on during this practice.<\/p>\n
Reese is aligned on the right side of the formation between safety Jason Pinnock and linebacker Micah McFadden. They repeatedly drill the transition from blocking to covering a punt. After a few minutes, Reese switches to the other side and provides a scout-team rush for the second-string punt team.<\/p>\n
1:49 p.m.: After the extensive special teams period ends, the entire defense retreats to the back field at the Giants\u2019 practice facility. Players gather around as newly signed linebacker Chandler Martin completes his initiation to the defense: 25 up-downs.<\/p>\n
1:51 p.m.: The position groups spread out to designated areas around the Giants\u2019 three practice fields for individual drills. Reese follows immediately after veteran Tremaine Edmunds at every station as the linebackers progress through a series of drills that mimic the position duties.<\/p>\n
2:09 p.m.: The defensive backs join the linebackers during a jog-through install period, while the defensive linemen and outside linebackers work separately. The linebackers and defensive backs go through the paces on their responsibilities in coverage before the offense and defense merge.<\/p>\n
2:19 p.m.: The nine-on-seven period kicks off the intrasquad segment of practice. Reese takes four reps in a period he calls \u201csuper physical.\u201d<\/p>\n
2:25 p.m.: The entire team comes together for the first 11-on-11 period. The first-team offense is pitted against the second-team defense initially, so Reese watches for three minutes before the starting defense takes the field to face the second-string offense. Edmunds, Burns and outside linebacker Abdul Carter join Reese on the second level. DJ Reader, Shelby Harris and Chauncey Golston are the defensive linemen in the base 3-4 defense. Greg Newsome, Deonte Banks, Jevon Holland and Tyler Nubin are in the secondary.<\/p>\n
This is an instructional period where the offense runs plays at full speed and repeats the same play twice at a walk-through pace so coaching points can be made.<\/p>\n
2:33 p.m.: The first live 11-on-11 period features the starting offense against the starting defense. Paulson Adebo has replaced Banks in the only lineup change from the first period.<\/p>\n
Reese plays four uneventful reps before the second-stringers come in. The starters finish the period with three reps, highlighted by a deep post from quarterback Jaxson Dart to wide receiver Malik Nabers. Holland and Nubin prudently don\u2019t try to break up the pass to Nabers, who is wearing a red non-contact jersey as he continues his recovery from a major knee injury.<\/p>\n
2:48 p.m.: The starters square off in an 11-on-11 red zone period. On the first play, defensive tackle Leki Fotu and safety Ar\u2019Darius Washington tackle running back Cam Skattebo to the ground. That\u2019s a major breach of practice etiquette, where defensive players are tasked with not taking offensive players to the ground.<\/p>\n
Reese, who unintentionally knocked Skattebo to the ground on a play earlier in camp, understands the fine line defenders walk in practice.<\/p>\n
\u201cBeing a defensive player, we want to make it known on film that I was making this play,\u201d Reese said. \u201cSo, sometimes we\u2019ll slip up and do too much and actually tackle somebody. I\u2019ve accidentally tackled him trying to make a play. Obviously we can\u2019t do that. We\u2019re pros; we have to stay off the ground. But as long as you don\u2019t gator roll somebody and do too much, it happens sometimes. It\u2019s football.\u201d<\/p>\n
After one rep against the starting offense, the backups come in to finish the period against the first-team defense. Backup quarterback Jameis Winston keeps the ball on a designed run while left tackle JC Davis seals Reese outside.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s tricky because you can\u2019t thud (Winston),\u201d Reese said. \u201cThey say Dart is tough, and he can take it, but then you still don\u2019t want to thud a QB. It\u2019s weird. You\u2019ve got to just tag off. But the QBs, they like to overdo it. You\u2019ve just got to tag off and be smart with the QBs. Can\u2019t hurt the QBs.\u201d<\/p>\n
2:52 p.m.: The starting units again square off in a red-zone period. Banks and Newsome are back as the first-team corner combo. Reese makes his best play of the day on the first rep, sinking into coverage and breaking up a corner route intended for tight end Isaiah Likely. Reese made an interception on a similar play earlier in camp, but he could only knock this pass away.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was running up under it so much, he threw it right to where I could catch it, but I got my head around last minute and only got one hand on it,\u201d Reese said. \u201cIt\u2019s a good play because I ran up under and that\u2019s where they were trying to get the ball, but I\u2019m supposed to pick that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Demonstrating the wide range of responsibilities in his role, Reese shifts from covering Likely to taking on 300-pound fullback Pat Ricard on a trap block on the next play. The two most physically imposing players on the roster meet with a thud that Reese welcomes.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s always fun seeing Pat in there,\u201d Reese said. \u201cLiterally, almost every day I\u2019m seeing him in the hole somewhere and having to put my pads on him, and we\u2019re having a collision. It\u2019s like I\u2019m taking on a defensive tackle. He played D-tackle. That\u2019s fun. I like that. We can keep doing that every day. I\u2019m not tripping going into games because I\u2019m doing it with a D-tackle every day.\u201d<\/p>\n
Watching the force Reese plays with can make it easy to forget that the 6-foot-4, 243-pounder is only 20 years old. His power has seamlessly transitioned to the NFL.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy strength translates, for sure,\u201d Reese said. \u201cJust having that same approach \u2014 that\u2019s what I did in high school. When I got to college, that\u2019s what I was looking forward to doing. I was like, \u2018I\u2019m going to have to keep this up.\u2019 Now that I\u2019m here, I\u2019m looking forward to still being able to do that. I wasn\u2019t looking to get here and be like, \u2018I can\u2019t do this anymore.\u2019 I\u2019m trying to keep doing it.\u201d<\/p>\n
3:02 p.m.: A field-goal period provides Reese\u2019s only true break of practice. He watches from the sideline as kickers Dominic Zvada and Ben Sauls each make 3-of-5.<\/p>\n
3:08 p.m.: The linebackers and defensive backs head to one end of the field for a seven-on-seven period against the QBs and skill players while the offensive linemen square off against the defensive linemen in one-on-ones at the other end.<\/p>\n
Banks, Newsome, Holland, Nubin and Dru Phillips join Reese and Edmunds in the secondary against the starting offense. On the third rep, Reese plays man coverage against Likely, who splits out wide. Likely goes deep, but Dart\u2019s pass is overthrown with Reese in tight coverage.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen you\u2019re pressing to the boundary like that, you know you\u2019re getting the work,\u201d Reese said. \u201cI was just trying to stay square as long as possible. Wasn\u2019t supposed to let him get outside; he ended up getting outside me, but just stick with him, play through his hands.\u201d<\/p>\n
Covering a dynamic tight end like Likely in practice will benefit Reese in the regular season.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s the same way I look at it with Pat. (He\u2019s) a great fullback,\u201d Reese said. \u201cI look at Likely the same way. It\u2019s a great receiving tight end. This is probably one of the best looks I\u2019m going to get at it in the league.\u201d<\/p>\n
Later in the period, Reese drifts toward the left flat as Dart fires an incomplete pass over his head, intended for Nabers, who was running a skinny post. Reese approaches Dart for a quick chat after the period.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was looking one way and threw it the other way,\u201d Reese said. \u201cWith his visor, I just wanted to ask him, \u2018Where were you looking?\u2019 He was looking to the flat, but he ended up throwing it to the goal post. I was like, \u2018Were you looking me off?\u2019 He was like, \u2018Yeah.\u2019 He was just laughing. I\u2019m the rat dropper (on that play), so I\u2019m just reading the QB. I\u2019ve got to read where the QB is going, so wherever he was going, that\u2019s where I was going. But then he ended up throwing it back where I left from. So just asking him, just getting little tips on that.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\n From taking on fullback Pat Ricard in the hole to chasing tight end Isiah Likely around the field, Arvell Reese is learning to do it all in Giants camp and is confident all those reps will make him better on game day. (Mike Stobe \/ Getty Images)<\/p>\n
3:19 p.m.: The final 11-on-11 period pits the starting offense against the starting defense. It\u2019s the same lineup as most of the practice, with Banks, Newsome, Phillips, Holland and Nubin in the secondary.<\/p>\n
On the second rep, Reese lines up as an edge rusher for the only time during practice. Skattebo picks up Reese\u2019s rush off the left edge. For Reese\u2019s potential versatility, he has been used almost exclusively as a traditional inside linebacker during camp.<\/p>\n
On the next snap, Reese blitzes through the B gap on the right side of the line and beats Tracy with an inside move. Touching the quarterback is forbidden, but Reese is in Dart\u2019s lap, forcing an errant throw.<\/p>\n
On his final rep of practice, Reese displays his explosiveness by closing downhill on a pass to Tracy in the flat on third-and-long. Focusing on Reese reveals the running commentary with Edmunds, a first-round pick in 2018 who is entering his ninth season.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re always talking, no matter what it is,\u201d Reese said. \u201cThere\u2019s never a play where we just line up, and then we just go through the play and then talk after the play. We always say something before the play; we damn near say something during the play.\u201d<\/p>\n
3:29 p.m.: Practice wraps up one minute shy of the two-hour mark.<\/p>\n
3:34 p.m.: Reese enters the Giants\u2019 indoor practice facility and is happy to take a seat on the back of an equipment cart to conduct this interview. He has made a point of not being overly vocal as a rookie<\/a>, but he is engaging during a 13-minute interview.<\/p>\n \u201cEverybody is always going to say I keep to myself, so me just keeping to myself, that\u2019s just who I am,\u201d Reese said. \u201cI don\u2019t just come in some place and automatically just be talking to everybody. I don\u2019t really know everybody. I don\u2019t really know you to know what we\u2019re even talking about. That\u2019s just who I am. Over time, I guess you could say I could come out of the shell.\u201d<\/p>\n Yup\u2026 Arvell Reese is going to be must watch film every week pic.twitter.com\/pvxQjShT19<\/a><\/p>\n