November 11, 2010 New York Giants Injury Report

November 11, 2010 New York Giants Injury Report – Steve Smith Hurt: Pro Bowl wide receiver Steve Smith was forced to leave practice early yesterday with a pectoral injury.

“Steve Smith went for a ball today and strained – what they are calling right now – is a strained pec,” said Head Coach Tom Coughlin. “He had trouble driving his arm after the injury so he couldn’t continue. I don’t have anything to tell you about him until they do all of the tests…I didn’t even realize he had done anything. And then word was that he was out of practice. He tried, I guess, to move his arms and that type of thing. And he did have some, I guess, pain up in his pec area. So we will have to wait and see…It was a ball in the middle where he extended for the ball.”

“It’s a huge loss, but we’ll make do,” ominously said Offensive Coordinator Kevin Gilbride.

Not practicing yesterday were OC Shaun O’Hara (foot), LT David Diehl (hamstring/hip), FB Madison Hedgecock (hamstring), and returner Darius Reynaud (hamstring).

DE Osi Umenyiora (knee) and OT Will Beatty (foot) were limited in practice.

“(Beatty) has done pretty good,” said Coughlin. “He has done well. He doesn’t seem to be real sore, which is a good sign…He did a couple of snaps for each period and then we upped it today to a few more.”

HB Brandon Jacobs (illness) and LB Gerris Wilkinson (hand) fully practiced.

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Quotes: Defensive Coordinator Perry Fewell on his mid-season surprise: “Probably Jonathan Goff, our middle linebacker. No one outside of our walls knew who our MLB was going to be, who our leader was going to be in the middle. We had lost Antonio Pierce and that was a position that was kind of up in the air and Jonathan just stepped in. He’s done a tremendous job as far as commanding the defense. I can give him a complicated check system within our defense and he’s able to execute that and get us into the right calls, so he has really been the guy that we look to and say, Hey, that’s our guy.”