The New York Giants are shuffling their roster a bit in advance of a Week 7 game against the Atlanta Falcons, and that began on Tuesday morning with the waiving of cornerback Donte Deayon, who is a popular player in the locker-room.

Taking Deayon’s place on the 53-man roster will be cornerback Grant Haley, who is being promoted from the team’s practice squad.

In addition to those moves, the Giants will also sign defensive back Ronald Zamort to their practice squad. This comes after the team worked out Zamort and three other players: quarterback Joe Callahan, defensive end Myles Humphery and wide receiver Bennie Fowler III.

Zamort, 26, was signed as a undrafted free agent out of Western Michigan in 2016 by the Arizona Cardinals, whose defensive coordinator at the time was James Bettcher, who is now in the same capacity with the Giants.

Zamort has been basically a camp and practice squad player in his short career and has never played a down in the NFL. The closest he came to making the Cardinals’ 53-man roster was in training camp in 2017 when he challenged for the rotational corner job.

A torn ACL ended his summer and Zamort was placed on season-ended injured reserve (IR) that August and has not played anywhere in the NFL since.

From Dan Schneier of 247Sports.com:

The 5-foot-10 and 175-pound cornerback originally went undrafted in 2016 in large part due to his size limitations. The Giants have proved unconcerned about size limitations at the cornerback position after trusting Donte Deayon with a key role as the team’s No. 4 cornerback so far throughout the 2018 season. When starter Eli Apple missed two games earlier this year with a groin injury, Deayon stepped in and played the majority of defensive snaps in each game Apple missed. The Giants are likely hoping to find another player like Deayon in Zamort.

Zamort will be the second corner out of Western Michigan to join the Giants this season. They selected Sam Beal in the supplemental draft back in July. Beal is on season-ending IR with a shoulder injury.

Callahan, a New Jersey native, has spent time with Green Bay, New Orleans, Cleveland and Philadelphia. Fowler has been with the Broncos, Bears and Patriots and was a member of Denver’s Super Bowl 50 championship team. He has 56 receptions for 698 yards and 5 touchdowns since entering the league in 2014.

Humphrey is an undersized defensive end out of Shepherd who was just released from the Baltimore Ravens’ practice squad two weeks ago.