One of the initiatives Joe Schoen set in motion when he was hired as the general manager of the Giants was to try to figure out how to solve the injury issues that troubled the franchise before his arrival.

Year after year, the Giants were high on the list of games lost to injury, and Schoen realized that was not conducive to winning football.

One of the ways Schoen could try to mitigate the potential for injuries was to sign and draft players with clean medical histories.

In free agency, that meant identifying players who had shown they were durable in their NFL careers.