With a great visor, comes great responsibility.
Not everyone is born to rock a super-cool visor, but when New York Giants pass rusher Brian Burns showed up to minicamp with a custom Spider-Man one, it was clear he might be the exception. Burns' custom mask might just be the coolest visor in the history of the NFL and you really have to see it to believe it.
The custom Spider-man visor for @Fire_Burns99 #uniswag pic.twitter.com/s2K5Np3N3I
— UNISWAG (@UNISWAG) June 13, 2025
That is about as clean a look as you'll ever see. You can almost picture him bending the edge like he’s swinging by skyscrapers, closing in on quarterbacks like they’re the next supervillain on his list.
Brian Burns embraces superhero role in more ways than one for 2025
Burns' admiration for Spider-Man has been public knowledge for quite some time. He famously wore web-themed socks on draft night because he was going to miss seeing Avengers Endgame.
"As a kid, I've always been a big Spider-Man fan," he said on Up to the Minute on NFL Network. "It just so happened to work out that his same attributes are the same attributes that I use on the field as far as quickness, speed, length, flexibility, bending, all kinds of things, instinct."
He'll look to get those Spidey senses working again in 2025 after a relatively successful 2024. Burns finished with 8.5 sacks 18 quarterback hits, and 17 tackles for loss. His pass-rushing numbers don't jump off the page, but his 82.9 pass-rushing grade from Pro Football Focus suggests he was doing a lot more work than his sack total would suggest.
Burns will look to be an integral piece of the pass-rushing puzzle alongside Kayvon Thibodeaux and Dexter Lawrence, as well as incoming rookies Abdul Carter and Darius Alexander, as well as free-agent veterans Chauncey Golston and Roy Robertson-Harris.
Burns might’ve shown up in the coolest visor possible, but the G-Men aren’t counting on optics. They’re counting on output. And through one year, they’ve gotten it. He led the team in pressures, tied for the lead in tackles for loss, and quietly gave the defense a level of consistency it’s lacked for years. It's crazy to believe there's even more to unlock.
Now in Year 2 with New York, he’s no longer the new guy. He’s the tone-setter. And with the pieces around him finally starting to take shape, the five-year, $141 million investment is looking more and more like the engine behind the Giants’ new defensive identity.
Spidey senses or not, the guy’s not here to be any offense’s friendly neighborhood pass rusher. He’s here to hunt quarterbacks—and if he looks cool doing it, even better.