Will Hernandez arrived at the University of Texas-El Paso as a 17-year-old and left five years later as an NFL draft pick.
“I basically grew up there,” the Giants left guard said.
So when Hernandez heard the news about the mass shooting at a Walmart in El Paso on Saturday, which left at least 22 people dead and many more injured, it came as a shock and hit too close to home.
“That city is really important to me,” Hernandez said Monday after practice.