Inside Training Camp: Highlights, buzz from Friday, August 1

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NFL.com provides highlights and buzz below from Friday’s training camps across the league.

First-rounder Carter brings ‘fastball’ to Giants camp

New York Giants rookie pass rusher Abdul Carter has turned heads since the pads came on during training camp.

Fellow Big Blue quarterback disruptors Brian Burns and Kayvon Thibodeaux joined NFL Network’s Inside Training Camp Live on Friday, praising what the Penn State product brings to the table. Burns noted that Carter’s ability to move around the formation, from edge to linebacker to inside, will allow the trio of pass rushers to be in the game together.

“He does [have a lot of juice for the game],” Burns said of Carter. “Honestly, just using his versatility to our benefit. It’s imperative that we move him around because you don’t want him in one spot, and he can do so much. We’re all similar body types, so we all can really be interchangeable. As long as we know exactly the concepts of the games that we’re running and the concept of the play, we can all be in different spots.”

Thibodeaux added that having a youngster like Carter on the line keeps the entire group pushing to improve.

“Yeah, I think it’s been dope, too. He has a fastball, and he’s using it,” Thibs said. “Seeing somebody young and confident and what they’re doing — we’ve got a lot of older guys with Nacho (Rakeem Nunez-Roches), with (Dexter Lawrence), with Burns now kind of in the prime of his career — but having more young guys in [the building] that have confidence in their moves, and throwing them and using them and also moving them around and using them in different spots, it’s definitely invigorating.”

Carter’s injection into a previously struggling Big Blue defense gives the Giants a weekly advantage. The pass rush trio of Burns, Thibodeaux, Carter and Lawrence will be a menace to offensive lines and quarterbacks alike. If the New York defense takes a giant leap forward in 2025, that will go a long way toward digging the club out of the cellar of the NFC East.

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