Alabama defensive back Xavier McKinney cheers during the bench press at the NFL scouting combine on Feb. 29, 2020, in Indianapolis. Credit: AP/AJ Mast
Matt Peart grew up in the Bronx. That, he said, is why he played basketball as a kid and not football. Too much concrete.
But last year his family moved to Fishkill up in Dutchess County. Good thing, too, because had he still been living in the city, it might have been difficult to find a place to work out for the next few weeks or months.
“Since I’m upstate, I can always find a little patch of grass so I can work on my offensive line technique,” the third-round pick of the Giants said this weekend.