It was Grant Haley’s grandfather who bought him his first pair of cleats, his grandfather who wished he could have played football at Penn State. It was his mother, his grandfather’s daughter, who kept secret for almost six years the rare liver disease known as primary sclerosing cholangitis that led to open-heart surgery and the ongoing search for a liver donor.
And it was Grant Haley who played at Penn State with Saquon Barkley. It was Grant Haley who never let go of an NFL dream born as an 8-year-old. It is Grant Haley who will be running out onto the field at Mercedes-Benz Stadium as a New York Football Giant for the first time on a Monday night none of them will ever forget.