Big Apple breakouts: How Giants’ Tommy DeVito, Jets’ Zach Wilson both won Offensive Player of the Week honors

For one week, the NFL’s best quarterbacks from each conference resided in the Big Apple. Following their performances in Week 14, Giants quarterback Tommy DeVito and Jets quarterback Zach Wilson were respectively tabbed as NFC and AFC Offensive Player of the Week. 

An undrafted rookie, DeVito improved to 3-1 as an NFL starting quarterback after helping lead the Giants to a 24-22 win over the Packers on Monday night. His 32-yard completion to Wan’Dale Robinson on the game’s final drive set up Randy Bullock’s game-winning field goal as time expired. 

“Still got stuff to work on, but like I said two or three times last week, I think he’s a young player that’s doing the right things and making the most of his opportunity,” Giants head coach Brian Daboll recently said of DeVito, via the New York Post. “He earned the right to play today, and he earned the right to play the next week. The kid’s done a good job.”

DeVito, who entered New York’s starting lineup when Daniel Jones and Tyrod Taylor went down with injuries, has injected life into a Giants team that finds themselves in…


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Author : Bryan DeArdo

Publish date : 2023-12-13 14:48:21

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