Jon Beason still isn’t practicing, but he was running sprints with Giants trainers and working on the side Tuesday, which is enough to create optimism by and around the oft-injured middle linebacker.
Beason, who left a preseason game with a knee issue, is hoping to be back on the field by the regular season opener.
“He feels better,” Giants coach Tom Coughlin said, via Stephen Lorenzo of the New York Daily News. “He’s got a routine now, and they get a little bit more aggressive each day with it. So he’s optimistic, let’s put it that way.