The No. 3 pick of the 2025 NFL Draft made requests this week to don the jersey numbers of Giants greats Lawrence Taylor and Phil Simms, and was turned down by both. Both numbers have been officially retired by the Giants for years, so Carter needed their permission to unretire them.

Phil Simms was willing to let Abdul Carter wear No. 11 for the Giants. Those closest to Simms were not. Simms told Gary Myers on Friday night that he was " outvoted by his family " on the question of whether his retired jersey should be unretired.