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          Giants add Cunningham to practice squad

          • Dan Graziano, senior NFL national reporterSep 2, 2014, 05:20 PM ET
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          Tight end Jerome Cunningham, who was released a week ago when the New York Giants reduced their roster to 75, is back with the team and has signed with the practice squad. That news comes courtesy of Cunningham's agent, Howard Shatsky, who tweeted it Tuesday afternoon.

          The Giants liked Cunningham, who signed after the start of camp, and believe he could develop into a contributor at a position of significant need for them at some point this season. They initially planned to keep four tight ends on their active roster, but they only ended up keeping three after cutting veteran Kellen Davis on Saturday. So it's not certain they'd need an injury to Larry Donnell, Adrien Robinson or Daniel Fells to put Cunningham on the roster.

          The Giants ended up keeping six wide receivers, largely because of the injury that continues to sideline first-round pick Odell Beckham Jr. Once Beckham is healthy, the Giants likely can get by with five wide receivers (of whom Beckham would be one), and if they wanted to go back to four tight ends at that time they could add Cunningham.

          The addition of Cunningham brings the number of players on the Giants' practice squad to nine. They are allowed up to 10. They had several players in for workouts Tuesday to try out for the final spots. One of those players was Ball State wide receiver Willie Snead, who spent training camp with the Cleveland Browns.