NY Giants Waive Injured WR Domenik Hixon

The New York Giants lost wide receiver Domenik Hixon to injury almost exactly one month ago. It's now possible Hixon will never play for the Giants again.

Pro Football Talk is reporting that the Giants waived Hixon on Thursday afternoon, making him available to all NFL teams. The Giants decided to waive Hixon's right rather than place the wide receiver on injured reserve, which would have automatically ended Hixon's 2010 NFL season. Concerning this season, the move doesn't matter one way or another. Hixon will be forced to sit out all of this upcoming season due to a torn right ACL.

The Giants signed special teams player Adam Jennings to replace Hixon on the team roster.

While the move sounds rather cold, it's one that NFL teams perform all the time during the summer months whenever a player is lost for the season, especially when that player is not signed for the following year. The way things currently stand, Hixon will become a free agent at the end of the 2010 NFL season. If the Giants deem necessary, the team can always reclaim Hixon and immediately put the wide receiver/punt return specialist on IR as the two sides work out a deal for the future.

If a team other than the Giants does acquire Hixon, that team will be forced to pay Hixon's $1.6+ million salary. While only 25 years old, Hixon has thus far shown to be a less talented, less versatile version of Josh Cribbs, nothing more. There was no guarantee he was going to be with the Giants in 2011 even before his season ending injury.

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