It would be revisionist history to state the Giants and Deonte Banks were always made for each other.
“If you go back to September, Deonte wasn’t somebody that was on the radar,’’ Brandon Brown, the Giants’ assistant general manager, acknowledged.
Head coach Brian Daboll hit it off with Banks when they met at the NFL scouting combine in Indianapolis. Defensive coordinator Wink Martindale. Brown and special assistant Jessie Armstead took Banks out to dinner before Maryland’s Pro Day. Jerome Henderson, the cornerbacks coach, dug deep into Banks for some classroom work.
“Sometimes you just jell into somebody, you’re talking, you just jell together. Some teams I didn’t do that, and some teams I did. The Giants felt the most family-like.’’ One game, Johnson watched Banks run through Millford Mills Academy, one of the top programs in the Baltimore area, and realized he had something special.
“It wasn’t really too crazy,’’ Banks said. “It wasn’t really nothing, wasn’t speeding or nothing, we were just driving around and we were out the window, that’s all.’’When Banks finally got in the game, against Fallston, he scored a touchdown on his first touch. Then another, and another. Three touchdowns on three touches, totaling more than 120 yards.“I didn’t really learn a lesson because it wasn’t really that serious to me,’’ Banks said.
There is a Hall of Fame wall at the school, reserved for former students who usually get enshrined later in their lives. Kimbrough hopes to fast-forward the process and include Banks sooner, rather than later.
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