El Paso is not a small city, with more than 500,000 people living within its borders and more than a million in its metropolitan area.
And The University of Texas at El Paso is not a small college, with more than 25,000 students on its campus.
But those are mere numbers.
Giants guard Will Hernandez said the town in which he “basically grew up” has a tightknit feel that belies its size and helps explain why he and others with ties to the city took Saturday’s mass shooting there so hard.
“The cool thing about El Paso, the unique thing about it, is it’s technically a big city, but it feels so close together,” he said after practice on Monday.