While the Giants have enjoyed amazing consistency at the quarterback position, relying on one player alone to start each game for the past 12 and a half seasons, they have not enjoyed such stability when it comes to the quarterback of their defense.
This will be the seventh consecutive year the Giants open the regular season with a new starting middle linebacker. And right now, less than a week away from kickoff, they can’t even say who that will be.
The likeliest candidates are a pair of free-agent acquisitions in Kelvin Sheppard and Keenan Robinson. It certainly won’t be Jasper Brinkley, who ended 2015 with the job and competed for it throughout most of training camp, since he was released on Monday.