Abdul Carter whiffs on another Giants legend's number: 'Just my last name on my jersey'

Abdul Carter is moving retired of retired numbers to take from.

The New York Giants picked the highly touted borderline rusher retired of Penn State with the 3rd wide pick, and changeable for the satellite with his archetypal jersey-number request.

Carter asked Lawrence Taylor, possibly the top Giant and antiaircraft subordinate ever, whether helium could deterioration his No. 56, which was retired by the Giants successful 1994. It was a hard nary from LT himself.

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Phil Simms and Abdul Carter (IMAGN)

"I cognize helium would emotion to deterioration that number," Taylor said. "But, hey, I deliberation it’s retired. Get different number. I don’t attraction if it’s treble zero, and past marque it famous."

Former backmost Phil Simms past said helium would let Carter to deterioration his No. 11, which was retired by the Giants successful 1995. 

Carter wore the fig passim his vocation astatine Penn State. It is simply a badge of grant astatine the school, fixed to a subordinate the school, and the past representative, feels is worthy. The erstwhile Nittany Lion to deterioration it earlier Carter was Micah Parsons, who wears it present with the Dallas Cowboys.

Carter said it would beryllium an "honor," but Simms' household are really who unopen it down.

Longtime New York sports writer Gary Myers posted connected X that Simms told him that his ain household "outvoted" him.

Phil Simms attends the 2022 Paramount Upfront astatine 666 Madison Avenue connected May 18, 2022, successful New York City. (Photo by Roy Rochlin/FilmMagic)

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Upon proceeding the news, Carter joked that helium would "be retired determination with conscionable my past sanction connected my jersey, nary number."

Last season, the squad un-retired Ray Flaherty’s No. 1 for wide receiver Malik Nabers, who wore No. 9 passim college. Flaherty's fig status was the archetypal successful nonrecreational shot history. Flaherty’s household gave the Giants support to un-retire the fig for Nabers, who wore it well. Nabers, arsenic a rookie, acceptable the franchise grounds for astir receptions successful a season, with 109. 

Abdul Carter, #11 of the Penn State Nittany Lions, celebrates aft a sack against the Maryland Terrapins during the archetypal fractional astatine Beaver Stadium connected November 30, 2024, successful State College, Pennsylvania.  (Scott Taetsch/Getty Images)

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The G-Men person 13 retired numbers for 14 players. (The No. 14 is for Ward Cuff and Y.A. Tittle.) Warren Moon precocious granted Cam Ward support to deterioration No. 1 with the Tennessee Titans.

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