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The Giants have decided to let kicker Jay Feely go to free agency. He'll have interest from the Dolphins, Cowboys and Falcons and should command a long-term deal. The Giants are interested in giving undrafted free agent Josh Huston, whom they signed in January, a shot at the job.
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Harro10;768511; said:
The Giants have decided to let kicker Jay Feely go to free agency. He'll have interest from the Dolphins, Cowboys and Falcons and should command a long-term deal. The Giants are interested in giving undrafted free agent Josh Huston, whom they signed in January, a shot at the job.
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ONE GIANT KICKER: IT'S NOT FEELY


By PAUL SCHWARTZ

March 8, 2007 -- If the game is close and the Giants next season need a game-winning field goal, chances are Josh Huston will be lining up to attempt the kick?
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Yes, the Giants appear willing to hand their place-kicking duties over to a 25-year old from Ohio State who has never played in an NFL game.

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Just an update to what others posted back in March:

Josh Huston: In Giants' Kicking Mix

Wednesday, April 25, 2007 Update: Huston will compete with Marc Hickock for the Giants' kicking job this summer, the Albany Times-Union reports.

Recommendation: Neither kicker has NFL experience, and the Giants haven't ruled out bringing in a vet later this spring or summer. Right now Huston, who kicked at Ohio State, is probably the favorite.
 
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Josh Huston, left, and Marc Hickok are competing to be the Giants? next place-kicker. But neither has kicked in an N.F.L. game.
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Giants? Kicking Hopes Rest on Untested Legs
By JOHN BRANCH
Published: May 15, 2007

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J., May 14 ? The Giants have two place-kickers on their roster. One, Josh Huston, spent most of last fall with the odd job of cleaning junk out of foreclosed houses, and had his appendix removed last week. He will probably not kick again until June.
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For now, the job rests on the foot of Huston, who was left to do little but watch the team?s three-day rookie minicamp, which ended Monday.

The Giants have been tracking his progress the past two months. He made 87 percent of his field-goal attempts ? most from 40 to 49 yards ? in simulated drills at Giants Stadium in April and early May. On May 7, after kicking and working out, he left to play golf, despite feeling a tad woozy.

?I shot 78,? he said. ?I was strokin? it, but I felt a little weird the whole time.?

The stomach pain arrived after dinner, and he felt only marginally better the next morning. By Tuesday night, his appendix had been removed. With three puncture wounds from the surgery in his belly, Huston is exercising again, but unlikely to try to kick a football for a few weeks.
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Between jobs in Columbus, Ohio, as a cashier at a market and cleaning out stuff left behind in foreclosed houses, Huston tried out for three N.F.L. teams last season, including the Giants in December, when Feely had a sore foot. At season?s end, the Giants signed him, unsure if they would keep Feely.

The job was Huston?s when Feely left for the Dolphins in early March. But Huston knew that the team would bring in at least one other kicker to stimulate competition.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/15/sports/football/15giants.html?ref=sports
 
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Kicker can't get leg up on Giant job
Tuesday, May 15, 2007

By VINNY DiTRANI
STAFF WRITER

EAST RUTHERFORD -- The Giants have been waiting to see whether Josh Huston can handle the placekicking duties. But they are just going to have to wait a little longer.
Huston was supposed to participate in the Giants' rookie minicamp, which concluded Monday at Giants Stadium. But a week ago he began feeling a pain in the stomach area that at times, he said, felt like a stabbing.

He was diagnosed the next morning with appendicitis and underwent laparoscopic surgery later that day. He was on the field for the Saturday and Monday workouts, but only watched as rookie free agent Marc Hickok handled the kicking.

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