Giants looking to ‘adapt and evolve’ on special teams

The new NFL kickoff rule is a major storyline heading into the 2024 season, as teams around the league look for ways to take advantage of this new rule.

If you watched any preseason action up to this point, you’ve seen it live in action. With a small sample size to work with, special teams coordinators, such as Michael Ghobrial of the New York Giants, are working on coming up with ways to adjust to this nuance.

Ghobrial spoke to the media on Thursday, as the team’s current punt return competition and, of course, the new NFL kickoff rule were topics of discussion.

Here are some of the takeaways:

Punt returner competition

Ghobrial was asked about the team’s punt returners, with veterans Gunner…