Giants rookie blitzes reports he was disciplined for sleeping during team meeting

Abdul Carter received a rude awakening Sunday erstwhile the New York Giants sidelined him for their archetypal antiaircraft bid against the Green Bay Packers.

Interim caput manager Mike Kafka said it was a coach's decision, prompting speculation astir a imaginable punishment. Kafka added helium wanted to "just support the remainder of that in-house," and Carter himself told reporters that helium had done thing incorrect successful the week starring up to the game.

Sure enough, it turns retired it was so a punishment for missing a squad walkthrough portion sleeping astatine the squad facility, according to aggregate reports.

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New York Giants linebacker Abdul Carter gets acceptable for a play during a crippled betwixt the New York Giants and San Francisco 49ers astatine MetLife Stadium connected Sunday, Nov. 2, 2025. (Julian Leshay Guadalupe/NorthJersey.com / USA Today Network via Imagn Images)

The Athletic besides reported that Carter has been "late to meetings," and erstwhile caput manager Brian Daboll was letting it "slide." Daboll was fired past week aft the Giants blew their 3rd double-digit, fourth-quarter pb of the season.

Carter, though, denied those reports connected Tuesday. The rookie said helium made an "honest mistake" successful not realizing a alteration successful the mean signifier times pursuing Kafka being tabbed arsenic interim caput coach, truthful helium was getting attraction instead. He claimed, though, that helium was not asleep.

"My mistake was an honorable mistake," Carter told ESPN connected Tuesday. "I ain the information that it was an honorable mistake. I was getting attraction and I told Coach Kafka that, too. But to accidental I was sleeping astatine that clip conscionable wasn't true. And it besides wasn't a trend. This was the lone clip it happened."

Carter was the 3rd wide prime retired of Penn State this past April, but helium rapidly drew the ire of the Big Blue faithful erstwhile helium asked Lawrence Taylor if helium could deterioration his famed No. 56 - L.T. declined.

New York Giants linebacker Abdul Carter (51) reacts to a play against the New York Jets during the archetypal fractional astatine MetLife Stadium. (Rich Barnes/Imagn Images)

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Carter past sought support from Phil Simms to deterioration No. 11, the aforesaid fig helium wore astatine Penn State and a badge of grant for the Nittany Lions. Simms obliged, but his household was not connected board, and ultimately, Carter's privation was denied. He yet settled connected No. 51.

To marque matters worse, successful 11 games, Carter has conscionable 1 half-sack. However, his 17% pass-rush triumph complaint is the 16th-best people successful the league, 1 spot down teammate Brian Burns, who has 13 of the Giants' 22 full sacks. Burns' 13 sacks are 2 down Myles Garrett for the league lead.

That goes to amusement that a marketplace correction is successful play for Carter, but it's becoming evident helium needs to commencement posting existent statistic accelerated earlier helium stays connected fans' atrocious side.

New York Giants archetypal circular draught picks, Abdul Carter and Jaxson Dart airs for photos anterior to the commencement of the property conference. (Thomas Salus/Imagn Images)

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With Jameis Winston astatine the helm owed to Jaxson Dart's concussion, New York fell to the Packers, 27-20, to determination to 2-9 connected the season.

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