New York Giants return man Ihmir Smith-Marsette has been named NFC Special Teams Player of the Week after his 100-yard kickoff return touchdown in Sunday’s 45-33 victory by the Giants over the Indianapolis Colts.
Smith-Marsette scored the seventh kickoff return touchdown in the NFL in 2024, the first season of the new “dynamic” kickoff rules.
Smith-Marsette opened the second half Sunday with the Giants’ first kickoff return touchdown since Oct. 25, 2015, when Dwayne Harris ran a kickoff back 100 yards against the Dallas Cowboys. The Giants played 155 regular-season games between kickoff returns, which was the NFL’s fourth-longest active streak when Smith-Marsette ended it.