BAYONNE -- If you don't know much about Giants kicker Aldrick Rosas, you're not alone.

"He played somewhere in Oregon - D-2 or D-3, I can't remember," long snapper Zak DeOssie said at the Newark Mentoring Movement golf outing at the Bayonne Golf Club on Monday.

Rosas kicked at Southern Oregon, which is an NAIA school. Known for his leg strength, Rosas made 25-of-32 field goals in the 2013-14 seasons before missing the 2015 season with a torn ACL.

Despite having two seasons of eligibility remaining, Rosas declared for the NFL Draft last year. He went undrafted and then signed with the Titans. Rosas was cut after a training camp battle with veteran Ryan Succop.

The Giants signed Rosas in January after he failed to catch on with a team last season. The Giants haven't acquired a veteran kicker to compete with the 22-year-old Rosas.

"We had him compete with another younger kicker (Travis Coons) in this past rookie camp and they decided to let Aldrick sort of find his own way by himself here," DeOssie said. "They're going to put him with (punter/holder) Brad Wing and I, we're going to do our best to bring him along and it's been super easy so far. He's hitting a lot of kicks, he's got the right mentality, he's got the right attitude and I'm looking forward to working with him and I hope it works out."

While kicks in offseason workouts are obviously less pressure-packed than those in games, DeOssie said Rosas appears to have the necessary "ice in his veins."

"In the past working with vets, you don't really pay attention to their percentages," said DeOssie, who is entering his 11th season as the Giants' long snapper. "You know what you're going to get out of those particular kickers. They have ice in the veins - the Lawrence Tyneses, the Josh Browns and the Robbie Goulds. On the field, they were good kickers so you knew what to expect. If they missed a kick, they missed a kick. What are you going to do? Here, this kid is for the first time by himself with a lot of pressure. We're mapping out every single kick he has and takes, and he's doing incredibly well and handling it exceptionally well."

It has been a promising start for Rosas, but he's a long way from locking down the job.

"We have a young kicker that we're looking at this spring," general manager Jerry Reese said in a recent interview with WFAN. "We have a lot of confidence in him, but we'll make sure we have a veteran kicker going into camp to create some competition for him as well."

Rosas understands the situation and he is embracing the chance to kick for a Super Bowl contender.

"The opportunity I have here, it's a big one," Rosas said during rookie minicamp. "I've finally got the keys, I guess, to deliver for the team. I'm excited about it."

Monday's event raised money for the Newark Mentoring Movement, which supports a network of 57 mentoring programs supporting over 4,000 youth in Newark.

"To watch them gain that experience and to be around the people that will help them with life skills and life decisions at such a young age, you watch them mature before your eyes," DeOssie said. "It's very reassuring and comforting to know that we're giving a helping hand, even if it's just a meet-and-greet with a long snapper or setting them up with the appropriate after-school program - whatever it may be to help them get that extra leg up while growing up in Newark."

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