Giants wide receiver Golden Tate throws the football during training camp at Quest Diagnostics Training Center on Saturday, July 27, 2019. Credit: Kathleen Malone-Van Dyke
Daniel Jones was injured and on the sideline. Colt McCoy was scrambling and taking hits. And Golden Tate? He was starting to wonder.
The wide receiver is one of the Giants’ emergency quarterbacks. In fact he’d thrown two passes already this season before McCoy even played a snap, including one earlier in Sunday’s game (his first incompletion in three career attempts, by the way). So if McCoy had gotten hurt — even for a play — chances are that Tate would have had to line up at quarterback for the Giants.