Auditions

NFL teams routinely bring in free agents for tryouts on Tuesdays during the season. A "Tryout Tuesday." These player auditions are held on Tuesdays due to it being the one day of the week that the players with a job have off. The facility is free for a player without a job to try and claim one. There isn't much media coverage of these auditions so we rarely hear anything about them. We did hear about the players that the New York Giants brought to their facility yesterday because they brought in so many. 15! Usually, these "Tuesday Tryouts" involve a player or two. To have as many as 15 is quite unusual. That's a lot of sack lunches if the team provides a sack lunch. The Giants are on their "bye" this week so they are obviously turning over a lot of stones.

The group of 15 hopeful players trying out with the Giants included a receiver, three tight ends, three running backs, a quarterback, two guards, a long snapper, two punters, and two kickers.

Here are those players:

Receiver
Jon Baldwin

Tight Ends
Ted Bolser
Tony Moeaki
D.J. Williams

Running Backs
Alex Green
Felix Jones
Dion Lewis

Guards
Jack Cornell
Antoine McClain

Quarterback
Terrelle Pryor

Long Snapper
Tyler Ott

Punters
Jacob Dombrowski
Robert Malone

Kickers
Travis Coons
Nate Freese

That's quite a group. It's been speculated that the quarterback, Terrelle Pryor, was present more as an audition arm than a player that might receive a contract offer. Someone had to throw footballs to the seven skill position players.

The players in these "Tuesday Tryouts" throughout the league are usually longshots. We'll find out soon if any of the "Giants 15" get a contract and a shot to continue their football career.