Defensive Tackle · New York Giants

Roy Robertson-Harris

No. 95 · 11th season

Roy Robertson-Harris tore his Achilles in the spring. The team is still waiting on him.

A torn Achilles is one of the slower, more humbling injuries in football — the kind where the calendar becomes the opponent. Roy Robertson-Harris knows that now.

There is not a lot on the record about who Robertson-Harris was heading into this season, only that he was there, working, until a spring injury took the decision out of his hands. Defensive linemen do not get a lot of ceremony when they go down. The depth chart shifts, the roster moves on, and the player is left to do the quiet work of getting back.

What is known is this: the team has not moved on. Robertson-Harris is still in the fold, and the expectation is that he could return before the season is over.

That is not nothing. A team holding a spot, building a late-season return into its thinking — that is a vote of something. The Achilles is a long road, and right now he is somewhere on it.

The question is whether the calendar lines up. Late-season returns from this kind of injury are possible. They are also rare enough that when they happen, people notice.

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