New York Giants rookie wide receiver Kadarius Toney, who has had a less than spectacular start to his NFL career, is back in East Rutherford after testing positive for COVID-19 last week.
“He’s with us today in the building,” head coach Joe Judge told reporters when asked about Toney.
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Understandably, Judge won’t rush Toney back into the swing of things having learned a few lessons from dealing with the virus last season.
“Last year we learned with the number of players on our team,” Judge said, via GMenHQ. “We’re going to go ahead and move [Toney] around the field, make sure when he’s ready to go, then we’ll go ahead and integrate him with the rest of our team.
“We aren’t going to go ahead and rush anything to get in the process, he’ll be in the meeting with all of our players. He’ll be able to go out there and operate in some of the meetings to get a little more on our feet … In terms of practice itself, we aren’t going to do anything with him fully on the field with the team, until he’s fully ready.”
Judge added that several other players have also dealt with COVID-19 issues this offseason but refused to name who. Ultimately, he says, each case is unique and will be handled on an individual basis.
“Toney’s timetable will be different from a lot of people’s that we learned from last year,” Judge says. “One thing we took away from last year is these things are very specific to each person … Comes down to what their individual symptoms were, what their exposure was, but that time away from training is what’s critical.”
For the time being, Toney, the team’s first-round pick, remains on the Reserve/COVID-19 list but will come off by the end of business on Tuesday.
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