It is easy to watch rookie linebacker Lorenzo Carter pressure quarterbacks or run step-for-step down the field with a running back — like he did Monday in covering Matt Breida of San Francisco — and think “he needs to play more.”
I know I expressed that opinion during an appearance on the ‘Locked on Giants’ podcast earlier this week.
New York Giants defensive coordinator James Bettcher is the man with the only vote that counts, though, and Bettcher thinks the roughly 50 percent (72 of 141) of the snaps the team’s third-round pick has played the past two weeks is just right.