February 27, 2025; Indianapolis, in, USA; The defensive line of Penn State, Abdul Carter (DL44), duration of the NFL 2025 exploration combination at the Indiana Convention Center. Mandatory credit: Kirby Lee-Imagn images It is a probable moment for Abdul Carter to only choose a normal defensive end.
The third selection of the NFL of the New York giants, the third selection of the NFL, originally asked Lawrence Taylor the legendary No. 56, and was rejected.
According to ESPN, Carter had asked the giants about the potential to use the unstoven. 56. Through intermediaries, Taylor, the Hall of Fame Pro Football, rejected Carter’s request. However, Taylor’s agent made a phone call with Drew Rosenhaus, Carter agent and the legendary defensive liner expressed respect for the request, but wanted Carter to create his own legacy with the giants.
“It has to be the player who is,” Taylor told ESPN in a telephone conversation. “It can’t be another Lawrence Taylor. Well, it may be better than a Lawrence Taylor, who knows. But he has to leave his mark. It depends on him.”
Carter seemed grateful only to receive the phone call, and published on social networks that Taylor remains the greatest of all time, and that rejection will only make it work even harder.
The main point of Taylor’s message to the rookie was to consolidate his own story with the giants in a number that was not. 56. However, Carter was not taking no by response, reaching Phil Simms on the number 11 retired, the number that raises his successful career in Penn State.
In a recent podcast, Simms said that if Carter asked No. 11, he would probably let him use it. However, Gary Myers writer for a long time, Gary Myers, reported on Friday night that the number would not leave retirement, since Carter’s request was rejected after the Simms family surpassed the legendary field marshal, leaving Carter back to the raffle.
Once again, Carter touched the news in Stride directly to social networks, joking that he would have to develop his rookie season in a blank shirt with just his last name in the back.
Carter enjoyed a legendary university football career in Penn State. He continued in the great Micah Parsons shoes, balanceing the typical No. 11 reserved for the outstanding Nittany Lions.
At this point, it is time for Carter to enter the laboratory and identify a number of sweater that feels comfortable to become his. In the same week, he was rejected by two of the largest football legends in New York.
Simply choose your own Jersey number and continue with the rookie mini -family.
