Overview
- The New York Giants will visit the Los Angeles Rams on Monday Night Football at SoFi Stadium on Sept. 21, a Week 2 game that sportsbooks initially priced with the Rams as roughly a one-touchdown favorite.
- The Rams announced Myles Garrett will undergo knee surgery and be placed on injured reserve, a move that will sideline him for at least four weeks and removes a planned centerpiece of Los Angeles’s pass rush.
- Rams coach Sean McVay has said Aaron Donald’s return is uncertain for Week 2, which means the interior pass-rush situation that shaped preseason expectations is still unresolved.
- Bookmakers still list the Rams as favorites on FanDuel and BetMGM, but public betting has shifted toward the Giants with DraftKings reporting more than 70 percent of spread bets on New York and lines moving closer to the visitors.
- The Giants’ upset of the Cowboys featured a breakout performance by quarterback Jaxson Dart, and that result plus concerns about the Rams’ travel-related fatigue from their Australia trip have made this matchup far more contested than preseason projections suggested.