ST. LOUIS -- The only one not impressed with the day rookie defensive end Kerry Wynn had Sunday was teammate Markus Kuhn. As a crowd gathered around Wynn's locker after the game, Kuhn smiled and said, "Scoop and score, Kerry! Come on!"

The reference was to Wynn's fumble recovery, which he did not pick up and run back for a touchdown, as Kuhn did two weeks ago in Tennessee.

"We can't all take it to the end zone," Wynn said.

"Must be a German thing," the German-born Kuhn said.

Wynn smiled, because it gave him a break from the interviews, which seem to make him uncomfortable. The soft-spoken rookie out of Richmond repeated over and over again that he doesn't like to talk about his own performance and only cares about it as far as it helps the team win. But with a sack, a fumble recovery and an interception on a tipped pass Sunday, the former absolutely accomplished the latter.

"Kerry Wynn should be recognized for some of the things he's doing as a young player and for taking advantage of his opportunity," Giants coach Tom Coughlin said.

So consider it done. The 6-foot-5, 264-pound Wynn has emerged as a versatile and helpful part of the Giants' pass rush during their three-game winning streak. He can play defensive end. He can move inside and rush from a defensive tackle spot. He was standing up at outside linebacker in one formation Sunday.

I've been very hard on New York Giants GM Jerry Reese for his terrible performance in the draft, and for good reason. But one thing Reese has done well as Giants GM is unearth small-school talent and find undrafted bargains. Wynn was not drafted -- he was signed as a rookie free agent out of Richmond and made the team as a tail-end roster player with a strong training-camp performance. He sat inactive for the first 11 games of the season before injuries to defensive ends Mathias Kiwanuka and Robert Ayers pushed him onto the game-day roster.

"That time was just about mental reps," Wynn said of what he learned while inactive. "Just getting into my playbook and making sure I knew the defense as well as I possibly could so I was mentally prepared as much as I was physically prepared."

It's been months since the Giants had anything meaningful for which to play, and these games are about putting things on tape for the coaches and front office to evaluate as they make decisions about next year's roster. Wynn is certainly opening eyes, though he doesn't want to talk about it.

"That all sounds great, but really I'm just glad to do something well in a team win," Wynn said.