Devonta Freeman, who played his very first six NFL seasons for the Atlanta Falcons, today signed up with the Giants, one day after Saquon Barkley was positioned on hurt reserve with a torn right anterior cruciate ligament.
In 5 championship game, Freeman ran for 235 lawns and 3 goals on 67 efforts and caught 16 passes for 197 backyards and 2 scores. In Super Bowl LI against the New England Patriots, Freeman completed with 11 carries for 75 backyards, including a five-yarder for the games first touchdown, and added 2 catches for 46 backyards, the longest a 39-yarder.
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J.– The Giants latest running back is a previous two-time Pro Bowler with a long performance history of success.
In a matching relocation, the Giants positioned broad receiver Sterling Shepard on hurt reserve with grass toe. Shepard, like Barkley, was hurt in the 2nd quarter of the Giants 17-13 loss in Chicago on Sunday. He is qualified to be renewed to the lineup after missing three video games.
Freeman, 5-8 and 206 pounds, has played in 77 regular-season video games with 59 starts and has started all 5 postseason games in which he played. Freeman has 5,987 profession lawns from skirmish.
Freeman was chosen to the Pro Bowl after both the 2015 and 2016 seasons, when he amounted to 2,135 rushing backyards, 127 catches and 27 goals. His 11 hurrying touchdowns in 2015 led the NFL.
