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Rookie Andrew Robustelli Brings Familiar Name to Giants

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — When Andrew Robustelli walked into the Giants’ headquarters and training complex last month, he saw something very familiar.

“Everywhere I turned, I saw a picture of my grandfather,” a smiling Robustelli said Friday.

The man for whom Robustelli was named, Andy Robustelli, was a seven-time All-Pro defensive end, a stalwart of fearsome Giants championship teams and a Giants front-office executive who was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1971. The elder Robustelli died in 2011.

The younger Robustelli, who goes by Andrew, was at the Giants complex for a visit in the days before the N.