Dexter Lawrence practiced for the first time this week on Saturday and said he always intended to face the Patriots on Monday night despite his year-old elbow injury that was aggravated last week against the Lions.

“I’m playing,” the defensive tackle said after the workout. “Don’t worry about that.”

The Giants concurred. Lawrence did not receive any designation on the final injury report before the game.

How much Lawrence actually can play remains, well, questionable. “I don’t know the plan right now,” he said.

Last week he was absent from the field on the first — and what turned out to be the only — defensive snap in overtime in the loss to the Lions when Jahmyr Gibbs scored on a 69-yard run. It was at the end of a game in which he played sparingly, limited mostly to pass-rushing

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