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The incredible story of Trenton's Daryl Virgies, Giants' new N.J. underdog

Daryl Virgies won't forget the sensation.

"It felt like a blowtorch was on me," the Trenton native and recently-signed Giants running back said, recalling the day he was shot in his triceps.

Virgies had completed his final season at Virginia University of Lynchburg, a historically black NAIA school, and was beginning to pursue a professional career.

That was already a lofty goal for a player from a school as small as VUL. Then on Nov. 3, 2015, Virgies left his apartment in the early evening and found himself "in the wrong place at the wrong time.