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Giants’ 90-Man Roster: Zak DeOssie Just Keeps On Snapping

Being an NFL long snapper is a fairly strange way to make a living. You spend your work time bent over looking backwards between your legs, with viewers looking at your backside, while trying to spiral an oblong-shaped ball backwards to a designated spot eight or 15 yards away.

It is a job 33-year-old Zak DeOssie has done for the New York Giants for the past 10 seasons, and one he could do for many more as long as he stays healthy and the ball keeps going where it is supposed to.

DeOssie signed a two-year, $2.