1:02 p.m. UPDATED with Adrian Tracy info.

At first, Adewale Ojomo was just flashing a bit and getting in Tim Tebow's head.



By the end of the preseason, the defensive end was winning games, sparing all of us from preseason overtime and downright forcing the Giants to keep him.

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The undrafted free agent defensive end will make the team's final 53-man roster today, according to someone informed of the team's plans. The person requested anonymity because the Giants won't release their transactions until 9 p.m.

Ojomo had four sacks over his last three preseason games, including a strip sack of New England Patriots' quarterback Brian Hoyer to set up the game-winning field goal on Wednesday. Ojomo nearly had another strip sack, which he called "an Osi Umenyiora move," earlier in the game when he hit Ryan Mallett's arm as Mallett tried to throw.

Even Justin Tuck said he didn't see Ojomo's emergence coming in the spring and early summer.

"You didn't see that at all," Tuck said. "But he came in, continued to work, listened and went out there and made plays and at the end of the day that's what it's about. He took advantage of the opportunities given to him. I would dare say he probably had one of the best camps of any defensive end I've seen, not only here but around the league."

Also making the final roster, it seems, will be Adrian Tracy. The former sixth-round pick and converted linebacker suffered a hamstring injury against the Chicago Bears after an impressive performance in the opener against the Jacksonville Jaguars. Tracy missed the past two games but said on Thursday he's recovered and feels like he "got a new wheel." Tracy expects to return to practice in the coming days.

"it now begins," Tracy tweeted along with a hashtag that read, "The hunger for more."



Meanwhile, another name has surfaced on the list of players to be pared from the roster. Cornerback Bruce Johnson will be placed on injured reserve for the third straight season, per someone informed of the team's plans for today. The person asked not to be named because the moves haven't been made official. Johnson missed the preseason finale against the Pats with a shoulder injury.



Johnson, an undrafted free agent in 2009 who had an interception returned for a touchdown against the Dallas Cowboys as a rookie, was trying to come back from a torn Achilles suffered last summer in camp. Johnson, who gave up a pair of touchdowns against the Chicago Bears last week, said he knew the coaches wanted him to "move a little quicker" and "make more plays on the ball." Johnson believed he was making progress in those areas but the shoulder injury apparently did him in.

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