Giants have been signaling they may be moving away from using a traditional fullback
During training camp and preseason a year ago, observers like myself and others kept watching Nikita Whitlock, and thinking "he needs to make the team, but how?" The New York Giants already had incumbent fullback Henry Hynoski, and the Hynocerous had become of the NFL's better fullbacks.
No way the Giants could keep two fullbacks. And they wouldn't cut Hynoski for a stumpy 5-foot-10 kid who played defensive tackle in college and had never played a regular-season snap at fullback.