September 28, 2007 New York Giants Injury Report: Not practicing yesterday were WR Plaxico Burress (ankle/sprained left pinky finger), HB Derrick Ward (ankle), WR Steve Smith (scapula), and FB Robert Douglas (knee). Burress, Ward, and Douglas are all listed as “questionable” for the game against the Eagles on Sunday night. Smith will not play.
“Plaxico is following the plan,” said Head Coach Tom Coughlin. “Just try to get him to where he is feeling the best he can feel on Sunday. He still is doing all the different kind of shoes that were brought in, all the different types of insoles and things like that; he is still doing a lot with that, trying to find something that makes him feel the best.”
Burress has a very painful sprained pinky finger that was an issue in last week’s game too. “I’m all messed up,” said Burress.
But Burress continues to insist that he will play against the Eagles. “I’ll play, there’s no doubt about it,” said Burress.
“Ward was sore today again,” said Coughlin. “We worked him yesterday and he was sore today. I expect he will be, but we didn’t work him today.”
HB Brandon Jacobs (knee) practiced, but is listed as “questionable”. “Brandon did everything,” said Coughlin. “He looked okay. He moved around pretty good.” Coughlin indicated that Jacobs’ availability will be a game-time decision.
Jacobs, however, sounded like he was not going to play on Sunday. “It’s not my week to jump out there,” said Jacobs. “I’ll wait until next week and see what happens…They want to make sure things are right, which I don’t blame them. I’m not holding it against them because they’re holding me out for this week. I want to play, but it’s a long season…You don’t want to be out another two or four weeks because you aggravate it again.”
QB Jared Lorenzen (ankle) was limited in practice and is listed as “probable”.
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