Giants lineman Shane Lemieux carted off practice field with knee injury
Giants offensive guard Shane Lemieu looks on in action during a game between the Bears and the Giants on Sept. 20, 2020, at Soldier Field in Chicago. Credit: Icon Sportswire via AP/Robin Alam/Icon Sportswire
The Giants are counting on their young offensive linemen to improve this season. Two days into training camp, they’re hoping one of them is even healthy enough to give that a try.
Shane Lemieux, the second-year player who is penciled in as the starting left guard, was carted off the field with a knee injury midway through Thursday’s practice. Arms folded and legs outstretched, he looked fairly unhappy about make the ride from the workout to the training room. Lemieux was being tested and examined by the team’s medical staff in the afternoon.
He was replaced by veteran Kenny Wiggins with the starting unit. The Giants have other options for the position, too, should Lemieux need to miss extended time, including veterans Zach Fulton and Jonotthan Harrison (who is currently on PUP with a hamstring injury). They could also shift projected right guard Will Hernandez back to the left side; Hernandez was the team’s starter there for most of the past three years and moved to the right side to accommodate Lemieux’s arrival as a starter.
Tom Rock began covering sports for Newsday in 1996 and became its NFL columnist in 2022. He previously was Newsday's Giants beat writer beginning in 2008.