Thanksgiving is just over a week away and New York Giants players are actively working to help families in need prepare for the upcoming holiday season.

On Tuesday, eight Giants players helped unload an 18-wheeler packed to the roof with 1,500 turkeys for the Community FoodBank of New Jersey, which is a part of the Stop & Shop Turkey Express program that will donate over 18,000 birds to various hunger relief programs.

“It’s awesome, it’s bigger than football, we just want to come out here and give some of our time to help give back to this community that is also who supports us, so we want to support them any way we can,” Giants defensive lineman B.J. Hill told ABC7.

In addition to Giants players helping to distribute turkeys for Thanksgiving, defensive backs Antonio Hamilton and Sean Chandler spent their Monday in Newark handing out more than 100 winter coats at the YMCA center.

“I come from very humble beginnings,” Hamilton told the families in attendance, via the TAPInto Newark. “Growing up, I went from house to house, shelter to shelter, actually. I just know how special it is to have a coat during the wintertime.”

“I, too, grew up in a real small town, which is very poor,” Hamilton later added. “I was blessed with the opportunity, with good parenting and my grandparents, to push me to keep going forward so I could get the opportunity to do something.”

Chandler also recognized the significance of giving out coats to those in need.

“This is something big even though it’s something small,” Chandler said.

It’s nice to see the Giants remaining giants in the community and pitching in to help those less fortunate as the holiday season arrives.