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Jordan RaananESPN Staff Writer
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- The fairy-tale comeback for New York Giants violative lineman Nick Gates has reached its latest chapter. He volition beryllium added to the team's progressive roster Wednesday, a root told ESPN.
Gates broke his near fibula and tibia successful Week 2 of past season, a gruesome wounded that saw his limb facing successful the incorrect absorption and enactment his shot vocation successful jeopardy. He would request 7 surgeries and suffered a setback successful the outpouring that forced the rod successful his limb to beryllium removed. There was a constituent wherever the seasoned lineman adjacent feared losing the leg.
But Gates has vowed to instrumentality and told ESPN precocious helium was "feeling great." He is presently connected the physically incapable to execute list, and the Giants opened his signifier model 3 weeks ago. They had 21 days to activate him oregon let him to revert to the physically incapable to execute database for the remainder of the season.
Gates' instrumentality comes astatine conscionable the close time. Right tackle Evan Neal and near defender Ben Bredeson were injured Sunday successful Jacksonville and are expected to miss immoderate time.
Gates, 26, was the Giants' starting halfway for each of the 2020 season. He has besides played guard, including erstwhile helium suffered the wounded successful Washington 13 months ago. Gates took snaps with the first-team discourtesy past week astatine halfway erstwhile Jon Feliciano was constricted by injury.
Feliciano started and played each violative drawback successful Sunday's 23-17 triumph implicit the Jaguars.
The Giants (6-1) wanted to springiness Gates arsenic overmuch clip arsenic imaginable to get backmost his spot and get into playing shape. They haven't had a padded signifier since his model was opened due to the fact that of their schedule, which included a travel to London earlier this month.
Still, the Giants person liked what they person seen.
"Nick has done a bully occupation since he's been retired present moving out," manager Brian Daboll said earlier this week.
Gates gives the Giants extent connected the violative enactment arsenic they caput into Sunday's matchup successful Seattle up of their Week 9 bye.
It's hardly a astonishment that Gates' communicative has reached this point. One of the archetypal questions helium asked each doc was whether helium was going to marque it backmost onto an NFL field.
"And they each assured him helium would," his mother, Sonya Gates, told ESPN this summer.
Nick Gates smiled arsenic helium was carted disconnected connected Sept. 16, 2021, astatine FedEx Field. He pumped his fist, assured his member successful a telephone telephone moments aboriginal helium would beryllium good and enactment retired a video of him taking a stroll astir the infirmary with a walker 2 days aft snapping his limb and 1 aft the archetypal circular of surgeries.
It's each par for the course.
"Toughest dude connected satellite Earth" is however his agent, Sportstars' Jon Perzley, described Gates the week aft the injury.
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