EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. - The New York Giants are ready to ease up on quarterback Eli Manning as he enters his 14th professional season. He may even be on a football pitch count with his throws limited as the summer and season progress.
It seems almost sacrosanct for an ironman quarterback who has never missed a start. But it seems likely to be Manning's 2017 reality.
"You can call it a pitch count. You can frame it like that, you can frame it however you like," general manager Jerry Reese said Thursday, some 24 hours before the Giants' first practice of training camp.