Giants rookie Abdul Carter settles on jersey number after Lawrence Taylor, Phil Simms fiasco

If Abdul Carter's jersey fig selections were a batting average, helium would beryllium successful the Hall of Fame. 

At slightest helium tin present physique a Hall of Fame resume connected a fig that could spell down successful New York Giants lore.

After getting unopen down to wearing some Lawrence Taylor's No. 56 and Phil Simms' No. 11, Carter, the 3rd wide prime of the draft, has settled connected No. 51.

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Penn State antiaircraft extremity Abdul Carter, right, poses with NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell aft being selected 3rd wide by the New York Giants during the archetypal circular of the 2025 NFL Draft astatine Lambeau Field connected April 24, 2025 successful Green Bay, Wisconsin. (Mark Hoffman / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images)

The Giants announced that Carter volition deterioration the fig for rookie minicamp (Jaxson Dart was fixed No. 6, and Cam Skattebo No. 44), but the numbers are taxable to change.

Carter asked 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.

Later on, Simms 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, a badge of grant astatine the school. It is fixed to a subordinate the university, 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.

However, that petition was yet unopen down by Simms' household aft a lengthy, fiery statement among the members of the household.

Upon proceeding the news, Carter joked that helium would "be retired determination with conscionable my past sanction connected my jersey, nary number." But, he'll beryllium astatine minicamp with a fig that apt has ne'er adjacent been considered being retired.

New York Giants archetypal circular draught pick, Abdul Carter, takes questions from the media during his instauration property conference. (Thomas Salus-Imagn Images)

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No. 51 was worn past play by borderline rusher Azeez Ojulari, who is present with the Philadelphia Eagles. It was archetypal seen connected a Giant successful 1946 by Chet Gladchuk. 

The astir notable Giant to deterioration the fig is Zak DeOssie, a two-time Super Bowl champion agelong snapper who wore it from 2004 to 2017.

Last season, the squad unretired 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 unretire the fig for Nabers, who wore it well. Nabers, arsenic a rookie, acceptable the franchise grounds for astir receptions successful a season, with 109. 

New York Giants first-round draught picks, Abdul Carter, left, and Jaxson Dart, airs for photos anterior to the commencement of the property conference. (Thomas Salus-Imagn 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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