Tavarres King was at his home in New Jersey watching the Giants game on Sunday.
So he was expecting the call.
“Just a little bit after the game,” he said when asked when his phone rang with that familiar 201 area code. “Kind of after they figured out what was going on with everybody.”
It was, of course, the Giants, the team that had waived him just before the Week 2 game against the Lions, calling to invite him back as a reinforcement after four of their wide receivers left the game with serious injuries, three of them season-ending.