{"id":458492,"date":"2025-12-19T20:26:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T20:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/458492\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T20:26:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T20:26:14","slug":"ny-giants-vikings-final-injury-report-punter-jamie-gillan-to-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/458492\/","title":{"rendered":"NY Giants-Vikings final injury report: Punter Jamie Gillan to return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">New York Giants punter <strong>Jamie Gillan<\/strong>, who missed last Sunday\u2019s game against the Washington Commanders with a left (kicking) knee injury, is set to return Sunday against the Minnesota Vikings. Gillan has no injury designation on Friday\u2019s final injury report.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Veteran <strong>Cameron Johnston<\/strong> signed to the practice squad and punted in Gillan\u2019s place last week. He also held for placekicks in Gillan\u2019s absence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Giants likely hope Gillan\u2019s return will not only help their struggling punt coverage team, but be a benefit to rookie placekicker <strong>Ben Sauls<\/strong>. Sauls will be making his NFL debut after the Giants cut Younghoe Koo after a pair of missed field goals against the Commanders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Four Giants have been ruled out:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">LB <strong>Kayvon Thibodeaux<\/strong> | Shoulder<br \/>DL <strong>Rakeem Nunez-Roches<\/strong> | Ankle<br \/>OL <strong>Evan Neal<\/strong> | Neck\/Hamstring<br \/>WR <strong>Beaux Collins<\/strong> | Concussion\/Neck<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Thibodeaux will miss a fifth straight game, and Nunez-Roches a second straight. Neal and Collins are both on IR, but have had their practice windows opened.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Vikings on Friday placed<strong> Christian Darrisaw<\/strong>, one of the NFL\u2019s better left tackles, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AaronWilson_NFL\/status\/2002102456290062525\">on injured reserve<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">LB Kayvon Thibodeaux | Shoulder<br \/>DL Rakeem Nunez-Roches | Ankle<br \/>OL Evan Neal | Neck\/Hamstring<br \/>WR Beaux Collins| Concussion\/Neck<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">LB Demetrius Flannigan-Fowles | Illness (Did not practice)<br \/>CB Art Green | Illness\/Hamstring (Full practice participation)<br \/>CB Rico Payton | Back (Limited practice participation)<br \/>OL Joshua Ezeudu | Calf (Full practice participation)<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">OT Christian Darrisaw | Knee (Being placed on IR)<br \/>DL Javon Hargrave | Thigh<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">OT Brian O\u2019Neill | Heel<br \/>TE Gavin Bartholomew* | Back (IR\/PUP designated to return)<br \/>RB Ty Chandler* | Knee (IR\/PUP designated to return)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York Giants punter Jamie Gillan, who missed last Sunday\u2019s game against the Washington Commanders with a left&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":380708,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,405,403,57855,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-458492","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-new-york-giants-injuries","12":"tag-newyork","13":"tag-newyorkcity","14":"tag-ny","15":"tag-nyc","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115748115843561498","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}