At first, Jared Lorenzen was a novelty - a 300-pound quarterback with a couple of funny nicknames. J-Load. The Hefty Lefty. The Pillsbury Throwboy. Lorenzen admits he's heard, and laughed at, them all. Yet two years after the Giants nearly took back his XXXL jersey when he mysteriously was a no-show for his first NFL camp, Lorenzen no longer is a joke to the Giants.
He may look like an offensive lineman wearing a quarterback's number, but his left arm is a cannon. And the way he's playing, he might be Eli Manning's backup before long. "Jared has played well when he's had the opportunity to play," Tom Coughlin said yesterday. "And I think he certainly has earned that consideration." Continue
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