Isaiah Simmons didn’t just play for the Giants on his second day after joining the team via trade. He started, alongside most of the top backups.
And he nearly sacked Aaron Rodgers and threw a wrench in the future Hall of Fame quarterback’s Jets debut Saturday in the preseason finale., with the teams set to meet again Oct. 27 in the regular season.After a 24-hour crash course in the defensive playbook, the versatile Simmons blitzed off the left edge on a third-and-12 and powered through a helpless block from running back Michael Carter to get his outstretched hand on Rodgers as the quarterback scrambled to the sideline.
Isaiah Simmons nearly sacks Aaron Rodgers during the first quarter of the Giants’ 32-24 preseason loss to the Jets.General manager Joe Schoen made a low-risk, high-reward trade Thursday when he dealt a 2024 seventh-round pick for Simmons, a 25-year-old linebacker with 37 career starts who is owed just $1.01 million this season.“I think the Giants got a good deal,” Simmons said with a wry smile. “We’ll see if it was worth the seventh [round] pick or not.
Simmons played 532 snaps in coverage and just 65 as a rusher last season, according to Pro Football Focus, but he hunted Rodgers on five of the six snaps he played in his Giants’ debut.
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