Drew Lock had to avoid the big mistake. And he could not do it at a key moment in the second quarter of the Giants’ 27-20 loss to the Cowboys.

Drew Lock will be the Giants' starting quarterback against the Cowboys on Thanksgiving in place of an injured Tommy DeVito.

Lock set up the Giants’ opening score with a 29-yard run in the first quarter. After Lock was ruled short of the end zone, running back Tyrone Tracy punched in from one yard out to give New York a 7-3 lead. Lock’s day went downhill after that.

Drew Lock put some excitement into the New York Giants' offense on Thanksgiving. The quarterback, replacing a sore and inactive Tommy DeVito, took off on a scramble on the Giants' first drive. It looked like a 30-yard TD run but review dashed that.

Tommy DeVito is inactive for the Giants' visit to the Dallas Cowboys because of a sore throwing arm, leaving Drew Lock as the Thanksgiving Day starter for New York. DeVito started last weekend in place of the benched and subsequently released Daniel Jones and was anticipating a return to the site of his first career start for the Giants last year.

Drew Lock is slated to get the Thanksgiving Day start for the Giants against the host Dallas Cowboys on Thursday with Tommy DeVito (forearm; questionable) being the emergency third quarterback.

Drew Lock will start at QB for the Giants against the Cowboys, as Tommy DeVito deals with a right forearm injury.

Another week, another new quarterback, but the same old terrible Giants offense. It was Drew Lock ’s turn on Thanksgiving in Dallas, following 10 games of Daniel Jones and one game of Tommy DeVito. Through it all,