The expectations for New York Giants rookie Abdul Carter are through the roof. Maybe even through the stratosphere and all the way to the moon.

Carter didn’t help those expectations shortly after the draft by asking the greatest linebacker of all time, Lawrence Taylor, if he could wear Taylor’s retired No. 56 jersey. He was, of course, rightly rebuffed.

Carter, though, has done nothing to quell the hype since.

He was electric in the spring, although with practices in shorts and t-shirt without real contact judging what was happening on the field with line play was a fool’s errand. He was dominant in training camp. He was impactful in preseason, even though he did not have a sack. In a miniscule 28-snap sample size — so few it made you wonder if the Giants did not really want to show Car

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