Graham Gano hasn't even set foot on the practice field for the Giants but the veteran kicker has already won the job. For now, anyway.
Gano is going through the COVID-19 protocols and awaiting a physical before he is expected to sign with the Giants later this week, a move the team obviously felt confident enough in to release veteran Chandler Catanzaro on Monday morning. Catanzaro had come out of retirement to sign with the Giants two weeks ago.
"I think he made the right decision coming out of retirement," Joe Judge said of Catanzaro. "He's definitely an NFL kicker."
Just not the Giants' kicker any longer.
Gano, 33, was released by the Panthers earlier this preseason. He has a history with general manager Dave Gettleman and special teams coordinator Thomas McGaughey, which made him a candidate for the Giants long before he visited the team on Sunday. He spent last season on injured reserve but is a career 82.1% kicker on field goals including a career-long 63-yarder game-winner in 2018 to beat ... the Giants.
The Giants are in need of a kicker after releasing Aldrick Rosas before the start of training camp. Rosas was charged with several misdemeanors from an automobile accident in California earlier this summer.
