Jake Carlock plans to spend the next month or so refining the skill he believes will allow him to stick in the NFL. And he’ll do it in perhaps the most Long Island way possible.
By using a lacrosse cage.
The Babylon High School graduate, who played college football at Stony Brook before transferring to LIU Post and then signing with the Giants as an undrafted rookie earlier this spring, is an aspiring long-snapper. For an undersized linebacker from an undersized school, such an aptitude can mean the difference when it comes time to decide who makes the team or the practice squads later this summer.