I’m just trying to be the best on each rep.

“From the meeting room to walk-throughs, to each rep, each team period, each 7-on-7. “I’m taking every day as a new opportunity,” Pinnock said. He received first-team reps on Monday, a promising sign, but there still is a starting safety job to compete for and potentially win. He’s a tight end who’s a deep-threat guy, a great back-shoulder guy.”įor Pinnock, a challenge remains. So you’re playing catch-up the whole time. “Every other who’s 5-11 or so has to probably take two whole strides for his one. “He’s extremely long and then his stride length,” Pinnock said. Nearly a week into camp, Giants players and other observers continue to be wowed by the Waller Effect. I’m not going to face tight end like Waller. “He said, ‘Bro, you didn’t have to do that, you didn’t have to do that.’ He just kept saying that in my ear.”Īfter practice, as Pinnock joined teammates in the cold tub, he said he told them, “I’m getting the best work I’m going to get. “He just kept hugging me,” Pinnock said with a laugh. Teammates, Pinnock said, were mostly speechless.Īnother said, “Dang, I didn’t know you had that in you.”

“I guess the setting, since it was against the best tight end in the country,” he said. Pinnock has made interceptions before, but making the play against Waller was a whole different feeling.

Pinnock said he heard from his former college coach, Pat Narduzzi, and former teammates as well as friends from his Connecticut high school. Among the commenters was his former University of Pittsburgh teammate, current Buffalo Bill Damar Hamlin. Pinnock’s grab took on a life of its own on social media, of course.

Wow heart of wild