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Injured kick returner Domenik Hixon cleared waivers yesterday, which means the Giants will be free to put him on IR at the start of training camp.
Hixon, by the way, will earn his $1.684 million salary, which was his restricted free agent tender, while he's rehabbing the surgically-repaired left ACL that tore in a non-contact drill the second day of minicamp. The Giants did take a calculated risk by exposing him to waivers, a necessary step before putting him on IR, but it is rare that other teams will take a player who is going to miss a season.
Hixon, highly regarded by the front office for both his abilities and his clean-living ways, will be a free agent after the season. But putting him on IR this year will keep him from signing with another squad before the Giants get a chance to negotiate a longer-term deal with him.
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Thanks for the info Ern on such a beautiful Saturday. Once again u show how u are the greatest Giants blogger/journalist that ever has existed. U are the Grantland Rice of the Internet era.
ReplyDeleteI hope he can make it back from his injury and re-join the team. He was an above average return man and a class act. Unfortunately, his greatest weapon was his speed, and between the ACL and a possible lockout next year, I wonder if he will be as effective when he gets back.
ReplyDeleteA little more info re: Jones accident. Still more questions than answers.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.nola.com/lsu/index.ssf/2010/07/details_surrounding_chad_jones.html
put him in the pile of used dbs with Kenny Phillips
ReplyDeleteThank god! Good solid player who I hope returns to full strength with the Giants. I have no doubt Hixon will spend the next year doing his best to get back with the Giants!
ReplyDeleteI hate to say it but if Hixon makes it back to the squad that would mean that the current crop did not make it...I would rather see that he returns to the NFL but that he has a hard time to crack our roster. I wish him well
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