Mark Herzlich, who squeezed seven NFL seasons and a Super Bowl ring out of a career that defied long odds, was released by the Giants on Saturday as part of the team’s cutdown to a 53-man roster. He was the third-longest tenured Giants player in training camp this summer, and his departure leaves just two players remaining from the Super Bowl XLVI team: Eli Manning and Zak DeOssie.
Herzlich, who turned 31 on Saturday, was a star at Boston College when a cancer diagnosis derailed his football future. Doctors told him he might never again walk and that football was out of the question.