McAtamney to create NFL debut in opposition to Washington – Yahoo
Worn Derry U-20 GAA participant Jude McAtamney will create his NFL debut for the Fresh York Giants on Sunday.
The Giants announced on Friday that fresh starting kicker Greg Joseph would be out of Sunday’s meeting with the Washington Commanders with an abdomen ruin.
With punter Jamie Gillan moreover out, the possibilities of Swatragh man McAtamney making his aggressive bow in the NFL elevated.
And on Saturday it modified into confirmed that he had been elevated to the active roster for this weekend’s sport.
The 24-300 and sixty five days-extraordinary, who is phase of the Giants observe squad, impressed this summer and featured in pre-season video games after becoming a member of the organisation as a free agent.
As phase of the Global Player Pathway, he’s eligible for a contrivance on the observe squad for three seasons.
Joseph modified into signed to exchange Graham Gano, who aggravated a hamstring ruin in a 21-18 loss to Washington in September, nonetheless he’s now contrivance to miss no longer much less than four video games thru his have ruin.
“I’m upright making willing a week to be willing, despite the very fact that I’m no longer taking part in,” McAtamney told BBC Sport NI in Fresh York in October.
“A week is a studying opportunity, and I essentially feel admire I’m studying and convalescing as time goes on.”
