Tre Hawkins III

Originally a 6th-round (209th pick overall) draft choice by the Giants in 2023.

TRANSACTIONS:

• Originally a 6th-round (209th pick overall) draft choice by the Giants in 2023.

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS:

• As a rookie in 2023, played in all 17 games with 3 starts…Recorded 35 tackles (24 solo) and one pass defensed…
• Contributed a season-high 7 tackles (5 solo) in his NFL debut vs. Dallas (9/10)…Hawkins was one of only 3 rookies drafted in the 6th round or later to start in Week 1…The Giants' other starting cornerback against the Cowboys was first-round draft choice Deonte Banks. It was the first time in the Super Bowl era the Giants started 2 rookie corners in the season opener…They had last started 2 rookies in their secondary in their opening game in 1980, when Mark Haynes (right cornerback) and Bud Hebert (free safety) started in a 41-35 victory vs. the Cardinals in St. Louis…The previous NFL team to start a pair of rookie corners in the season's first game was the 2008 Kansas City Chiefs (Brandon Carr and Brandon Flowers).
• Center John Michael Schmitz, the Giants' 2^nd-round draft choice, also started vs. Dallas…The Giants started 3 rookie draft choices in their season opener for the first time since 2018, when running back Saquon Barkley, left guard Will Hernandez, and defensive lineman B.J. Hill all played the first snap.
• Had one tackle at Arizona (9/17)…Tallied 6 tackles (2 solo) at San Francisco (9/21)…Recorded 2 tackles at Miami (10/8) and at Buffalo (10/15).
• Made his 2^nd start vs. Washington (10/22) and registered his first career pass defensed, plus 4 tackles (3 solo)…Collected 6 tackles (4 solo) in a start at Washington (11/19) and 6 stops (5 solo) vs. Philadelphia (1/7).

COLLEGE:

• Played 2 seasons at Trinity Valley Community College in Texas before spending his final 3 years at Old Dominion, which canceled its 2020 season due to the pandemic…In 2021-22, started all 25 games in which he played and recorded 133 tackles (98 solo), 5 stops for loss, 2 interceptions, 13 pass breakups, 3 forced fumbles and 3 fumble recoveries.
• In 2022, started all 12 games at cornerback...Finished 4th on the team with 57 tackles (44 solo)…Tied for the team lead with 2 interceptions and was 2nd on the squad with 6 pass breakups...Tied for the Sun Belt Conference lead with 3 fumbles recovered, forced 2 and blocked one kick…In 2021, started all 13 games at cornerback…Recorded 76 tackles (54 solo), 4 stops for loss and 7 pass breakups...The 76 tackles are the most in a single season by an ODU cornerback...In 2019, played in 8 games at Trinity Valley Community College…Finished with 26 tackles (11 solo), 2.5 tackles for loss and 4 pass breakups.
• In 2018, played in 9 games for Trinity Valley and had 18 tackles (13 solo), including one for loss, one pass breakup and one forced fumble.

OFF-THE-FIELD ACTIVITY:

• Joined Project Kind, an organization to support those experiencing homelessness, to host an event with 125 people from the organization for a day of haircuts, spa treatments and lunch at MetLife stadium…The entire 2023 rookie class visited Harlem, where players were split into groups to visit 4 different schools and hosted a flag football clinic for 50 of the boys in the Harlem Giants program...To celebrate Halloween, dressed in costume to visit patients and distribute giftbags at Hackensack University Medical Center's Joseph M. Sanzari Children's Hospital…Continued the annual rookie Thanksgiving tradition at the Community Kitchen located at the Food Bank for New York City in Harlem to hand out turkeys and meals for people in need…Partnered with the American Heart Association and Oakley to meet and play with students for 60 minutes and encourage them to be active and create healthy habits at Benjamin Franklin Middle School in Ridgewood, N.J. and provided a $1,500 equipment grant…Met with members from the Wounded Warriors Project during their visit to the Quest Diagnostics Training Center to watch practice and enjoy a day with the Giants…Represented the Breast Cancer Research Foundation during the NFL's Week 13 My Cause My Cleats initiative.

PERSONAL:

• Sport management major…Recorded 60 tackles, 7 pass breakups and 2 interceptions as a senior at Temple (Texas) High School…Helped Temple to a berth in the regional final…Also a standout sprinter on the track team…Son of Tausha Jackson.