Giants kicker Graham Gano tests positive for coronavirus

Graham Gano (Google Images)

According to the Ottawa Sun on Tuesday, New York Giants kicker Graham Gano of Arbroath, Scotland has tested positive for coronavirus. Gano is in his first National Football League season with the Giants after playing three seasons to begin his NFL career with the Washington Football Team from 2009 to 2011, and then seven seasons with the Carolina Panthers from 2012 to 2018.

In 2020, Gano leads the NFL with 21 made field goals. He has an excellent field goal percentage of 95.5%. Gano has also made all 16 of his converts. During Gano’s career, he has made 245 of 295 field goal attempts for a field goal percentage of 83.1%. He has also made 322 of 337 converts.

Gano is one of two active players in the NFL from Scotland. The other is Cleveland Browns punter Jamie Gillan of Inverness.

The Giants are based in MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey. In what is known as the Garden State, there have been 295, 751 cases of coronavirus in the state of New Jersey with 16, 782 deaths. There have also been 189,032 recovered cases of coronavirus in New Jersey, with 89, 937 active cases.

The Giants are coming off a huge 27-17 win over the Philadelphia Eagles this past Sunday. With a record of three wins and seven losses, the Giants are in contention in the NFC East, as the Eagles lead the division at three wins, five losses, and one tie.

In other Giants news, the team fired offensive line coach Marc Colombo, and replaced him with Dave DeGuglielmo. Colombo was reportedly upset with Giants head coach Joe Judge that Judge had hired DeGuglielmo as an offensive consultant. There was a heated confrontation and Colombo was fired according to Ryan Dunleavy of the New York Post. 

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