Giants rookie Abdul Carter continued to deny a report that he slept through a walk-through practice last week. Instead, the edge rusher said Tuesday he was getting treatment during the walk-through.
The Giants benched Carter for the first series, a decision interim coach Mike Kafka called a “coach’s decision.”
Carter told Adam Schefter of ESPN that Kafka changed the practice times, something he didn’t realize until he was in treatment. Carter said he had a FaceTime call with Kafka later that day.
“My mistake was an honest mistake,” Carter told Schefter on Tuesday. “I own the fact that it was an honest mistake. I was getting treatment, and I told coach Kafka that, too. But to say I was sleeping at that time just wasn’t true. And it also wasn’t a trend. This was the only time it happened.”
Tomon Fox started for injured edge rusher Kayvon Thibodeaux, playing the first six defensive snaps. Carter played the final 45 snaps and totaled a tackle and a quarterback hit.
Carter said he felt the report about him sleeping through the walk-through unfairly tarnished his reputation. He initially denied the reportin a social media post on Monday.
“I don’t want anonymous sources to say these types of things about me that are untrue,” Carter told Schefter on Tuesday. “I did make a mistake, and I own up to what I did.”