Antrel Rolle one of five NY Giants captains

Antrel Rolle was already the vocal leader of the Giants. Now, he’s an official team leader, too.

Rolle was one of the five 2013 team captains the Giants named on Thursday, joining Eli Manning, Justin Tuck, Zak DeOssie and Chris Snee. It’s the first time in Rolle’s nine-year NFL career that he’s been named a team captain.

“As a young kid, you always dream about certain things,” Rolle said. “You dream about playing in the NFL, you dream about making Pro Bowls, so forth and so on. And I think — well, I know — being named as a captain of the New York Football Giants is a huge accomplishment.

“It’s something I never even imagined would take place,” he added. “I’m definitely ecstatic for it. And I thank my teammates for even having that trust in me, that accountability to name me captain. I’m extremely honored.”

Rolle is the only member of the captaincy quintet who is not a lifelong Giant; he’s entering his fourth season with the team. But he’s been one of the Giants’ loudest voices over the past three seasons, and coach Tom Coughlin said the selection “says volumes about the young man, the transition that he’s made into the New York Giant culture and the way he feels about his team, and the franchise and his teammates.”

Not that Rolle plans to change anything this season.

“Just keep doing what you’ve been doing,” he said. “If they named me captain, particularly for what I’ve been doing, why change it?”
It’s not as if he could get much louder, anyway.


(nydailynews.com)