The Giants are tied for second within the NFL in sacks (4.7 per sport) by way of three weeks. Final week, they have been throughout Cleveland quarterback Deshaun Watson, hitting him a complete of 17 occasions and sacking him eight.
The eight sacks have been the Giants’ highest whole since they’d eight sacks in a 36-7 victory at Tennessee on December 7, 2014.
The Giants turned the fourth crew to have 9 completely different gamers document no less than half a sack in the identical sport since 1982 (when the sack turned an official NFL statistic). The Buffalo Payments (October 30, 2011), Dallas Cowboys (September 29, 1985), and Kansas Metropolis Chiefs (December 8, 1985) have been the opposite three groups to do it.
The Giants eight sacks have been credited to Dexter Lawrence (2.0); Brian Burns, Azeez Ojulari, Elijah Chatman and Jason Pinnock (1.0 every), and Bobby Okereke, Micah McFadden, Rakeem Nunez-Roches and Kayvon Thibodeaux (0.5 every).