Kenny Phillips misses practice to avoid injury

Kenny Phillips says he isn’t hurt and just sat out practice today to make sure he didn’t get hurt.

“I haven’t played ball in a long time, so if anything the legs might get a little fatigued and that’s when injuries can occur,” said the Giants’ safety, who missed the last 15 weeks of last season after undergoing microfracture surgery on his knee. “That’s what we’re trying to avoid.”

Phillips was held out of action due to his knee being, as Tom Coughlin phrased it, “tired and sore.” Phillips, though, said there’s “no pain or anything” in his knee and even clarified that it wasn’t his knee that was injured when he went down briefly against the Titans.

Asked if he’s holding himself out or if it’s the trainers who held him back, Phillips replied, “A little bit of both. They’re just trying to make sure I don’t have any setbacks or anything like that. We’re just being safe right now.”

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(nj.com)