Defensive Back · New York Giants

Thaddeus Dixon

No. 39 · Rookie

Three Giants players. Three torn Achilles. One spring.

Spring workouts are supposed to be about getting ready. Not this year, not for the New York Giants.

Thaddeus Dixon is a cornerback — one of the players whose job is to shadow wide receivers step for step. That job requires everything an Achilles gives you. Dixon tore his during spring sessions, joining wide receiver and return specialist Gunner Olszewski and defensive lineman Roy Robertson-Harris on what has become a genuinely grim list. Three players. Three of the same injury. One stretch of offseason practices.

An Achilles tear is one of the hardest roads back in football. It typically means a full season lost and months of rehab before a player feels like themselves again. For Dixon, who was working to carve out a role in the Giants' secondary, the timing couldn't be harder.

Three is a pattern. That's the part the Giants can't explain away with bad luck. Whatever the next few months look like for this roster, they now include three players fighting to find their way back from the same devastating injury — all before a regular season game has been played.

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