Sandro Platzgummer, the Austrian football player who came to the New York Giants two years ago thanks to the International Pathway Player program, has been a curiosity since his arrival in 2020.
Platzgummer has spent two seasons on the Giants’ practice squad. Thanks to an offer to return from GM Joe Schoen, and the International Player Pathway practice squad roster exemption being extended an extra year, Platzgummer is back for a third season with the Giants.
Can he be more than a curiosity? Can he actually make the 53-man roster?
“That would mean everything,” Platzgummer said when he and I sat down for a chat during rookie minicamp.