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Giants send injured Manningham, Hixon for tests

Giants coach Tom Coughlin on Tuesday tried to clarify the cloudy injury situations of receivers Mario Manningham and Domenik Hixon, both of whom were knocked out of Monday night’s win over the Rams.

Though Coughlin said he didn’t have results of tests, it doesn’t appear either player will miss Sunday’s game against the Eagles.

Manningham left the game with what the team termed a concussion, but after the game Manningham told people he didn’t have a concussion but had stiffness in his neck.

Tuesday, Coughlin said, “As far as I know, all the tests and all the protocol for a concussion are being conducted right now” on Manningham. “He’s going through the entire battery of tests you give to a player who leaves a game with any kind of head injury.

“He was much clearer when he left the stadium (Monday) night and he was much more bright-eyed this morning when he was in,’’ Coughlin said. “We will just wait and see what the doctor says after he finishes the exam.”

Hixon, who came down awkwardly on his right leg while making a TD catch at the end of the first half, said after the game he hurt his calf.

But Coughlin said Hixon, who missed all of 2010 with a right knee injury, was having tests, including an MRI exam, on that knee.

“As far as I know it’s a knee injury,’’ Coughlin said. “He, too, will be completely checked out. Dom came in after the half, he loosened up, he tried to go, there was still some look in his eye as to the discomfort factor and the lack of true feeling as if things are normal, so that is when he came off the field and the decision was made that he should not return.”