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Giants Insider: Umenyiora has fans on current defensive line

For Osi Umenyiora, it was a bittersweet day, the day he signed a one-day contract with the Giants and retired from the only franchise he’s ever loved.

And for Owa Odighizuwa and Kerry Wynn, that meant the chance of a lifetime. On Wednesday, the two pieces of the future of the Giants’ defensive line were dying to meet with Umenyiora, one of the most storied figures of Big Blue’s defensive past. Both grew up idolizing Umenyiora, a key figure on the Giants’ Super Bowl runs of 2007 and 2011.

“We had our last off day and I was up late, just searching YouTube and watching him,” said Wynn, a second-year defensive end who inherited Umenyiora’s old No.