Linebacker is always a position where the New York Giants seem to take the low-brow approach. They use late-round draft picks and troll free agency hoping to find useful, low-cost players discarded by other NFL teams.
Last season, Keenan Robinson was one of those low-rent discards the Giants took a flier on. The gambit paid off handsomely as Robinson, oft-injured in four years with the Washington Redskins, played all 16 games for the Giants and became a valued member of the Giants’ nickel and dime defensive packages.
Let’s take a closer look at Robinson as we continue our player-by-player profiles of the Giants’ 90-man roster.