Nat Berhe, who took the direct snap as an upback on Sunday and ran for 2 yards on a fake punt, had not carried the football as an offensive player since he was a high school running back in 2008. And that was four years after the last time the Giants called a fake punt.
That’s how rare such trickery has been in the Giants’ repertoire. You have to go all the way back to Nov. 15, 2004 – the game before Eli Manning’s consecutive start streak began – for the last time they attempted such a play.