The call came to Austin Droogsma’s cell phone in late April, and he was certain he was being punked or scammed.
“Austin, this is Charles Tisch with the New York Giants,’’ the call began. “We want you to come up and try out at rookie minicamp.’’
“My first response was like, ‘You know I didn’t play football in college, right?’ ’’ a disbelieving Droogsma told Tisch, a football operations assistant with the Giants and the son of team co-owner Jonathan Tisch. “He said, ‘Oh yeah, we know.’ I was like, ‘OK, well now that we got that out of the way,’ that they didn’t think I was somebody else.