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It is always a concern for any rookie making his NFL debut. Will it be too big for them?

Should Eric Gray return a punt, he would be the first Giants rookie to do so in a Kickoff Weekend game since Mark Jones at Philadelphia on Sept. 12, 2004 (one return for eight yards).

Publicly, the Giants are trying to tamp down expectations. Privately, they're talking about bringing another banner to New York.

A positional head-to-head breakdown of the Week 1 matchup between the Cowboys and Giants to find the strengths and weaknesses of each defensive position.

One of the Giants’ more overlooked rookies could be the first on the team to have the ball in his hands this season.

Darren Waller’s first game with his new team won’t be his first Giants-Cowboys experience. The biggest acquisition of the Giants’ offseason was born to a father who was a Giants fan from Queens and a mother who was a Washington football fan, so NFC East rivalries are in his DNA.

The Giants' roster has been fortified and a second year of the offensive and defensive systems will allow for increased familiarity and an ability to augment the lesson plans with more exotic schemes. This is only Year 2 of what was projected to be a rebuilding process, and sometimes progress is not linear.

The feeling some have that the Giants will take a step back isn't one borne of a study of the roster then, and now.

With the regular season coming on Sunday night, we're taking a look back at how the rookies did the for G-Men during the preseason.

College football fans can rejoice now that the season is back, and the NFL will follow suit this week.