EAST RUTHERFORD Giants Customized Color Rush Jerseys , N.J. (AP) — and make people forget Evan Engram.The 29-year-old Ellison is an old-time tight end. He’s tough. He’s physical. He catches the ball, runs hard and blocks as well.Engram is the more modern version of a tight end. The 23-year old can run like a receiver, break a game open with a catch and help out a little with his blocking, which is not his strongest suit.When the Giants (1-2) face the New Orleans Saints on Sunday at MetLife Stadium, Ellison is going to step in for Engram, who sprained his knee last weekend against Houston and is going to be sidelined for a couple of weeks.“There’s stuff that I can’t do that Evan does,” Ellison said Thursday before the Giants practiced. “For me, it’s just trying to execute the plays and find my role in the play that’s called, and try to make a play.”Ellison had his best game of the season this past weekend, catching three passes for 39 yards New York Giants T-Shirts , including a 16-yard touchdown, in a 27-22 win over the Texans.Odell Beckham Jr., who leads the Giants with 24 catches for 271 yards, said all the receivers are going to have to step up to replace Engram, who led the Giants in receiving last season.“Rhett, we call him Mr. Consistent. I do, at least,” Beckham said. “He always seems like he’s in the right place at the right time, always making the plays, so everybody’s got to step up.”Ellison has spent a lot of time this week talking with Engram https://www.giantsfanshop.com/hats , who had 10 catches for 104 yards and a TD this season.“A lot of people sleep on Rhett,” Engram said. “He’s definitely a teach-tape in the blocking game. The dude is a really good athlete and makes plays in the pass game too. So, no need to give him any speed. He was moving on some plays on Sunday, and I expect him to have a big game this weekend, and through the pass game. I know he’s going to take care of his blocks in the run game.”Giants coach Pat Shurmur worked with Ellison when both were with the Vikings.“I’m fond of Rhett who he is as a player and as a person,” Shurmur said. “He epitomizes a player that you want on your team. He’s very good at what he does, he can line up anywhere, he finds a way to make plays. Some guys just have a knack for that. He finds a way to make plays. Very trustworthy and very tough, and he’s wired like a football player, and that is what you’re looking for.”Shurmur even equated Ellison’s toughness with that of Mark Bavaro New York Giants Hoodie , the outstanding tight end who was a member of the Giants’ Super Bowl-winning teams after the 1986 and ’90 seasons.The comparison was somewhat funny because Bavaro made a name for himself early in his career carrying a half-dozen San Francisco defenders on a 31-yard pass play in the ’86 season.“One of which was my dad,” Ellison said, whose father Riki was a linebacker who played a decade in the NFL. “So, I’m sure my dad is not happy about this comparison.”Ellison said he isn’t approaching this game any differently than others in his seven-year career. He is spending time with backup tight ends Scott Simonson and rookie Garrett Dickerson to make sure they are up to speed. Engram is working with them, too.“He definitely has been picking my brain a lot this year,” Engram said of Ellison. “So have I with him in blocking and stuff. I have all the confidence in him. Like I said, I feel like I’m a vet sometimes when that happens. He’s like the young kid asking me for help and stuff.”NOTES: CB Eli Apple (hamstring) returned to practice on a limited basis. LB Olivier Vernon (ankle) was also limited. DT Damon Harrison (knee), RB Jonathan Stewart (knee) and WR Cody Latimer (knee) missed practice for the second straight day. EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — The New York Giants saw their faint playoff hopes extinguished on Sunday as they lost to the Tennessee Titans 17-0 in miserable conditions at MetLife Stadium.The loss, in a driving rain Riley Dixon Color Rush Jersey , poured buckets of cold, wet reality on the optimism that has permeated the Giants in recent weeks as they have rebounded from a 1-7 start to reach the periphery of playoff contention. The Giants are now 5-9, guaranteed to finish below .500.“We didn’t do anything well enough to expect to win,” coach Pat Shurmur said in a somber post-game assessment. “We didn’t run the ball, we didn’t stay on the field on offense. We had penalties. We didn’t tackle as well as we had in the last few weeks, which extended drives for them, and they beat us. We had a turnover that turned into points.”The Giants had an awful day on offense with Odell Beckham Jr. sidelined for a second straight game with a quad injury.The Titans controlled Giants’ running back Saquon Barkley, holding him to 31 yards on 14 carries. Barkley finished with 56 yards from scrimmage, only the second time this season he has been under 100 yards.“When you look at our offense, when you look at our success it starts with running the ball Janoris Jenkins Color Rush Jersey ,” offensive guard Jamon Brown said. “We struggled with that today.”With no running game, no Beckham and a driving rain throughout the game Eli Manning had an awful day. Manning went 21-of-44 for 229 yards with an interception and a fumble that led to Tennessee’s second score. He was sacked three times.The Giants were penalized 10 times for 58 yards.Derrick Henry of Tennessee ran 33 times for 170 yards as the Titans simply manhandled the Giants’ defense. As a team, Tennessee ran 44 times for 216 yards.Safety Michael Thomas said the Giants need to “take a look in the mirror. Figure it out,” when it came to giving up that much rushing yardage.“You never want to see anybody rush for 100 yards, let alone 170 yards on you.”Moments that matteredKyle Lauletta inactive: After going 0-for-5 with an interception against the Washington Redskins in his NFL debut last Sunday, rookie quarterback Kyle Lauletta was replaced as the backup quarterback by Alex Tanney. [Full story]Fourth-and-goal: Tennessee’s first-half touchdown came on a fourth-and-one run by Derrick Henry with 2:47 left in the first quarter.Bad Eli: The Giants reached the Tennessee 29-yard line on their first possession of the second half, but Manning was intercepted by Titans safety Kevin Byard at the 15-yard line. That did not cost the Giants points. A Manning fumble on the Giants’ next possession did. Manning fumbled when sacked on third-and-10 at the Giants’ 14-yard line. Tennessee turned that into a 14-0 lead five plays later on a 1-yard run by Henry.Injury newsGiants’ center Spencer Pulley left the game in the third quarter with a calf injury. John Greco took over at center. The Giants also lost cornerback Antonio Hamilton to a quad injury. What’s next?The Giants go on the road to face Andrew Luck and the Indianapolis Colts in a 1 p.m. ET game.