Perkins Poised For Playoff Success
The Giant Insider|January 15, 2017

ROOKIE ON THE RUN Fifth-round draft choice Paul Perkins emerged late this season.

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Perkins Poised For Playoff Success

Back in the preseason, Paul Perkins would cringe when the coaches turned on the video to begin a critique of his performance in pass protection.

“I was doing my best, but I knew I could do better,” the rookie running back for the Giants said. “When the game speeds up, it’s not just about being able to block a guy but blocking the right guy and that takes some time to learn, which guy is the right guy.

“There were some not-so-fun moments, definitely. But I’m getting there. I’m getting there.”

If Perkins’ pancake blocks of Browns linebacker Jamie Collins last month served as a promise of things to come, consider his stone-walling of Lions defensive end Ziggy Ansah in the Giants recent 176 victory over the Lions on a key fourth-quarter completion from Eli Manning to Odell Beckham Jr. as further evidence of his arrival.

The emergence of a rookie running back in Week 16 of the 2007 season sparked the Giants when Ahmad Bradshaw ran over the Bills and jump-started the ground game all the way to Super Bowl XLII.

Perkins’ potential this season has been a story line that Giants fans can’t get enough of, and now it seems as though the coaches are ready to put him in there more as the stakes get higher.

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