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OCTOBER 25, 2009

EAST RUTHERFORD- The Giants will have a different starter on the offensive line for the first time in a regular season game since the 2006 finale.

Right tackle Kareem McKenzie will not play tonight when the Giants host the defending NFC champion Arizona Cardinals. McKenzie, who injured his groin last week in New Orleans, is inactive. Rookie second-round draft choice William Beatty will make his first professional start.

McKenzie had practiced on a limited basis all week and was listed as questionable on the injury report released on Friday.

McKenzie and his four partners on the offensive line - Chris Snee, Shaun O'Hara, Rich Seubert and David Diehl - started the previous 38 regular season games together, the longest such streak in the NFL.

This is only the fourth game McKenzie has missed in five years with the Giants and the first time he's been inactive since a victory over Houston on Nov. 5, 2006.

The five linemen first played as a unit on Jan. 7, 2007, in a 23-20 NFC Wild Card Playoff loss at Philadelphia. Seubert had started only three games that season - at center for O'Hara in a game he missed and twice as a second tight end. But when Seubert returned after missing the final two regular season games with a shin injury, the coaches inserted him into the lineup at left guard and moved Diehl out to tackle, where aging Bob Whitfield - who had replaced an injured Luke Petitgout - was struggling.

INACTIVES

GIANTS
WR Ramses Barden
T Adam Koets
LB Michael Boley
DT Chris Canty
CB Aaron Ross
T Kareem Mckenzie
WR Sinorice Moss
RB Gartrell Johnson

CARDINALS
QB Brian St.Pierre
S Rashad Johnson
LB Reggie Walker
G/T Herman Johnson
G/T Brandon Keith
WR Early Deucet
TE Stephen Spach
TE Dominique Bird