Giants Devin Singletary focusing on ending concerning fumble woes: Letting my guys down

Devin Singletary is working to drop his reputation for fumbling. The Giants’ clearest path to victory against the Cowboys on Thursday night is to keep feeding Singletary — who has been an early-season workhorse with 71.8 percent of the offensive snaps — against the NFL’s worst-ranked rushing defense. Let an offensive line that feels it has gained an identity with direct runs setting up play-action passes turn the tables on defensive linemen who are used to teeing off on Daniel Jones and protecting big leads. The only problem with that plan is that Singletary has fumbled in each of the last two games, upping his career total to 16, which is the fourth-most by a running back since he entered the league in 2019.The sixth and seventh lost fumbles of his career both happened coming out of halftime. “I don’t look at myself as a fumbler,” Singletary said after Tuesday’s walk-through.

“It comes with the game.Guys get paid to do this, just like me.

You have to have thick skin and you have to be tough mentally, and keep rolling.I definitely don’t want to let my guys down any more.” Fumbling isn’t a new concern for Giants fans — all-time franchise great Tiki Barber had to change the way he carried the ball to avoid losing his job early in his career — but it has been a dormant one.

Saquon Barkley fumbled only six times (three lost) on 1,489 career touches from 2018-23. Singletary otherwise has done a nice job replacing Barkley, averaging 4.7 yards per carry with back-to-back games over 95 yards from scrimmage.But “two good punch-outs” can offset the positives. “I wouldn’t say it’s bad luck,” Singletary said.

“Definitely something I have to correct.Shoot, when I’m running, I have to cover it up in traffic with two hands.

I’ve been doing a lot of drill work.Teammates have been helping me out, trying to do punch-outs and stuff even though we are doing walk-throughs.

I have to clean that up because we can’t be turning th...