A weird thing happened on the way to laughing at Joe Judge and Jason Garrett for the entirety of the season after Saquon Barkley got hurt: the Giants went back to the drawing board and fixed their run game. Over the first three weeks of the year, the Giants had rushed for 170 total yards. Other than Andrew Thomas getting randomly benched in Week 6, they had run the same offensive line every week until Week 8: Thomas, Kevin Zeitler, Will Hernandez, Nick Gates, and Cameron Fleming. Week 8 saw them mix in, for the first time, fifth-rounder Shane Lemieux of Oregon.