{"id":789484,"date":"2026-05-11T20:16:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T20:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/789484\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T20:16:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T20:16:19","slug":"cover-3-takeaways-from-rookie-minicamp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/789484\/","title":{"rendered":"Cover 3: Takeaways from rookie minicamp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dan Salomone:<\/strong> We have a good old-fashioned kicker competition on our hands, and undrafted rookie Dominic Zvada is part of it. The former Michigan All-American and 2024 Big Ten Kicker of the Year showed his leg strength in windy conditions on Friday at the Quest Diagnostics Training Center.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Really talented,&#8221; said Harbaugh, who earned his stripes in the NFL as a special teams coordinator. &#8220;He&#8217;s big, tall, rangy kind of guy. Big for a kicker, you would say, and really strong leg. More than anything, it&#8217;s the consistency. He has a vertical swing pattern, we call it. He does a nice job of getting downfield through the kick. Because of that, he tends to kick a ball straight consistently. If you do that, you probably have a chance. It&#8217;s like your drive, right? When you hit it straight down the middle consistently, you have a good round.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Giants have a new kicking battery this year. Over the offseason, they signed kicker Jason Sanders and punter\/holder Jordan Stout, who have been first-team All-Pros in their careers. They also added two long snappers in Super Bowl LV champion Zach Triner and undrafted rookie Ben Mann, who is the grandson of Chuck Mercein, a fullback drafted by the Giants in 1965.<\/p>\n<p>The only returnee is Ben Sauls, who made all eight of his field goal attempts and seven extra points in the final three games of last season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s going to be a competition, for sure, right out of the gate,&#8221; Harbaugh said. &#8220;It&#8217;s already started. You saw Zvada. That was his first iteration of that competition. We&#8217;re coming next week. We&#8217;ll be kicking field goals. We go to OTAs, we&#8217;ll kick field goals I think every other practice, but we may be kicking them every practice because we have three guys to kick. We&#8217;ll just see how it shakes out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Over the course of Harbaugh&#8217;s 18 seasons in Baltimore, the Ravens were No. 1 in the NFL in field goal percentage (86.9), makes (552), and attempts (635). It will be a major part of the formula for the new-look Giants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dan Salomone: We have a good old-fashioned kicker competition on our hands, and undrafted rookie Dominic Zvada is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":789485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,115614,12730,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-789484","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-cover-3","10":"tag-homepage","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkcity","15":"tag-ny","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-united-states-of-america","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116557787350309957","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789484","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=789484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/789485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=789484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=789484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=789484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}