The New York Giants defeated the Carolina Panthers, 19-16, on Sunday afternoon at MetLife Stadium. It improved their record to 2-0 on the season and has them sitting in first place in the NFC East — at least for now.
There’s a lot the Giants need to clean up, especially with the Dallas Cowboys coming to town, but there are increasing reasons for optimism.
Here’s a glance at what interesting stats, numbers and broken records were birthed from the Week 2 win over the Panthers.
- With the win, the Giants start 2-0 for the first time since 2016. They had started 0-2 in each of the previous five seasons.
- The Giants won their home opener for the first time since 2016 — six years later to the day.
- New York and Carolina were tied at both halftime and after three quarters, which hasn’t happened in a Giants game since 2017.
- Graham Gano connected on two 50-plus yard field goals on Sunday, extending his franchise record to 14 50-plus yard field goals.
- Daniel Bellinger scored his first career touchdown and became the Giants’ first rookie tight end to score a touchdown since 2019 (Kaden Smith).
- On his first career play, rookie safety Dane Belton recovered a fumble.
- The Giants last recovered a fumble on the opening kickoff in 2009.
- Darnay Holmes recorded his first career forced fumble.
- Julian Love recorded his first full career sack.
- Cor’Dale Flott made his first career start.
- Tanner Hudson recorded his first (and second) receptions as a member of the Giants.
- Justin Layne and Antonio Williams made their Giants debuts.
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