Giants rookie Abdul Carter continued to deny a report that he slept through a walk-through practice last week. Instead, the edge rusher said Tuesday he was getting treatment during the walk-through.

The Giants benched Carter for the first series, a decision interim coach Mike Kafka called a “coach’s decision.”

Carter told Adam Schefter of ESPN that Kafka changed the practice times, something he didn’t realize until he was in treatment. Carter said he had a FaceTime call with Kafka later that day.

“ My mistake was an honest mistake ,” Carter told Schefter on Tuesday. “I own the fact that it was an honest mistake. I was getting treatment, and I told coach Kafka that, too. But to say I was sleeping at that time just wasn’t true. And it also wasn’t a trend. This was the only time it

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