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Sections New York Giants NewsGiants Training Camp 2016Giants vs. Eagles 2015 White Riley Dixon Jerseys , Week 17New York Giants NewsRookie mini-camp notebook: Daniel Jones, Darius Slayton, Eric Dungey, Corey BallentineNew,116commentsRookies get first practice out of the wayEDTShareTweetShareShareRookie mini-camp notebook: Daniel Jones, Darius Slayton, Eric Dungey, Corey BallentineDaniel Jones works under the watchful eye of Pat Shurmur on Friday.Noah K. Murray-USA TODAY SportsEAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — The first of two rookie mini-camp practices for the New York Giants is in the books. Here are a few notes from Friday’s practice.Daniel Jones first dayJones hit some throws Riley Dixon Jerseys 2019 , missed some others and generally looked like he had an idea what he was doing on his first full day as an NFL player. He threw at least one short pass much too hard early in practice, but seemed to settle down. There weren’t any interceptions, and no embarrassingly memorable snafus. He threw one really nice deep post to Darius Slayton — that was dropped.“He did a good,” Shurmur said. “It’s a lot for a quarterback coming into an NFL system. I thought he did a good job today.“You don’t really want to evaluate the quarterback on the first day because they’re getting used to the receivers. The second day things start to smooth out a little bit.”More practice notesSlayton, the team’s fifth-round pick, dropped at least four passes from Jones. He did, however, make a couple of contested catches late in practice. Shurmur said of the drops “that’s why you practice. There’s a lot to get used to. ... I thought he finished the day pretty well.”Former Syracuse quarterback Eric Dungey might be a player to watch. The 6-foot-3, 220-pound Dungey is listed as a quarterback/tight end on the mini-camp roster White Alec Ogletree Jerseys , and could eventually be in line for a look in a Taysom Hill type role. Shurmur said Dungey is “one of those guys we sort of had our eye on throughout the draft.” The coach added that Dungey is “a good football player” and “usually there’s a place on the field for guys that are good football players. We’ll just keep working with him and see what happens.”Name of the weekend? That would belong to Freedom Akinmoladun, a tryout linebacker from Nebraska.Corey Ballentine updateAsked about the sixth-round pick who is recovering after suffering a gunshot wound in the glute when his friend and teammate Dwane Simmons was murdered, Shurmur reminded that Ballentine “was the victim of a crime.”“He’s a great young man,” Shurmur said. “It’s very unfortunate. He was the victim of a crime. That could happen to any of us. We’re here for him. He’s going through the vigils and the funerals and the things he has to go through.”Shurmur said he is “hopeful” Ballentine will return when the full team meets again a week from Monday. He said he wants Ballentine to get “full closure.” Think Saquon Barkley should be the 2018 NFL Pepsi Rookie of the Year? Well, you have a chance to make that happen for the record-setting New York Giants running back.Barkley is one of five finalists for the honor, and you can vote at NFL.com/rookies. Voting will continue until Monday, Jan. 21 at 3 p.m. ET.Need some Barkley highlights to refresh your memory, or just take care of a football fix? How about a Baldy’s Breakdown of some of Barkley’s best plays? There is also this:As wonderful as Barkley is, until and unless the Giants properly identify a long-term heir to Eli Manning there will always be debate over whether or not the Giants should have selected Sam Darnold No. 2 overall instead of Barkley.Giants GM Dave Gettleman has zero doubt that he made the right decision.“I’ll say it again: us taking Saquon was not a referendum on the quarterbacks Alec Ogletree Jerseys 2019 , it was a referendum on Saquon – on the player he is, and on the person he is,” Gettleman said at his season-ending press conference. “If I was in that situation 100 times, I’d draft him 100 times.”Here are breakdowns of the five candidates:BarkleyCleveland Browns RB Nick ChubbIndianapolis Colts LB Darius LeonardDenver Broncos RB Phillip LindsayCleveland Browns QB Baker MayfieldFedEx Ground Player of the Year?Barkley is also one of three nominees for the FedEx Ground Player of the Year award. Today through January 31 at 3:00 pm ET, fans can cast their vote for each category at nfl.com/fedex鈥嬧€?or via a Twitter poll on the @N鈥婩L official handle.The other nominees are Todd Gurley of the Los Angeles Rams and Ezekiel Elliott of the Dallas Cowboys.