Rob Gronkowski goes off on Abdul Carters crazy…
Rob Gronkowski is floored at Abdul Carter’s daring request.
The former Penn State go rusher, whom the Giants took No. 3 general in the 2025 NFL Draft, was in pursuit of Hall of Famer Lawrence Taylor’s No. 56 jersey to put on for his rookie season.
The daring ask rubbed Gronkowski the unsuitable approach.
Abdul Carter speaks to reporters at a information convention at the NFL soccer crew’s coaching heart in East Rutherford, N.J., Friday, April 25, 2025. AP
“Was he serious asking for LT’s number?” the four-time Super Bowl champ stated on a current episode of the “Dudes on Dudes” podcast he hosts with former Patriots teammate Julian Edelman. “Yeah you were a high draft pick but LT is an absolute legend. The best to do it. One of the best defenders of all time. Like you gotta prove yourself. That’s crazy just asking for LT’s number. And I’m glad that LT shut him down like that.”
Gronkowski is referring to Taylor telling The Post’s Steve Serby that Carter ought to use a totally different quantity.
“I know he would love to wear that number, but hey, I think it’s retired,” Taylor stated. “Get another number, I don’t care if it’s double zero, and then make it famous.”
“That was such an LT response. Go make your own freaking number kid,” Edelman continued on the podcast. “Can we read the room? And it’s not even the room, it’s the football galaxy. The fact that he even asked, that’s crazy to me. Maybe he’ll go make another one. And people say oh the [No.] 11, the 11 thing. But they give everyone 11 at Penn State but no one ever puts on the 56.”
Rob Gronkowski shares his ideas over Abdul Carter wanting Lawrence Taylor’s Giants jersey. X @DudesonDudesPod
Carter didn’t take the rejection too onerous.
“The worst thing he could say was NO!! My stance don’t change, LT is the [goat emoji] nothing but respect…,” Carter tweeted a day following Taylor’s determination. “This just gonna make me work even harder!! I love it.”
Carter wore No. 11 at Penn State, the identical quantity worn by former Nittany Lions linebackers LaVar Arrington and Micah Parsons.
New York Giants great Lawrence Taylor reacts after he rings the bell before the beginning of the first quarter of the Giants and Washington Commanders recreation in East Rutherford, N.J. Bill Kostroun/New York Post
The Giants’ No. 11 initially wasn’t obtainable since it’s retired for former Super Bowl-winning quarterback Phil Simms, but the previous Giant later stated he was open to the concept of un-retiring his quantity for Carter or the crew’s different first-round choose, Jaxson Dart.
“I told some of my friends and people around me, ‘I’d let him have it in a second. Can you just help it a little or make it better?’” Simms quipped on FanDuel TV. “I think it would be a lot of fun. It wouldn’t bother me.”
Carter jumped at the chance, posting on X “It would be an HONOR,” while tagging Simms with the horns hand emoji.
Former New York Giants quarterbacks Phil Simms, Jeff Hostetler, and Eli Manning are honored on the sphere during the second quarter of a recreation against the Dallas Cowboys at MetLife Stadium on September 10, 2023 in East Rutherford, New Jersey. Getty Images
Quarterback Phil Simms #11 of the New York Giants passes the ball in the sport between the Detroit Lions vs the New York Giants at Giants Stadium on October 16, 1988. Getty Images
However, Simms’ household outvoted him and his quantity will stay retired.
“Damn at this point imma be out there with just my last name on my jersey, no number Jkjk, It’s all Love. Just wanna play Football!” Carter wrote on X with three crying laughing emojis.
Just a yr after the Giants un-retired No. 1 for Malik Nabers following Ray Flaherty’s household’s approval, Carter is putting out in his own quest.
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