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While Lawrence Taylor doesn’t want<\/a><\/span> Abdul Carter<\/a>\u00a0wearing his retired No. 56, one of Lawrence’s former teammates said he would’ve been just fine with the Giants<\/a> unretiring his number if either Carter or\u00a0Jaxson Dart<\/a> wanted to wear it. Phil Simms’ family, however, had something to say about that, leaving Carter without a shot at the also-retired No. 11.<\/p>\n A former Giants quarterback whose number was retired by the team in 1995, Simms was recently asked what he would say if Dart (who wore No. 2 in college) asked to wear his number.<\/p>\n “I’d let him have it in a second,” Simms said<\/a>. “Can you just help it a little bit and make it better? I think it would a lot of fun. It wouldn’t bother me.”<\/p>\n Simms said he would have had a similar response if Carter wanted to wear his number. Carter actually wore No. 11 during his career at Penn State, carrying on a tradition of decorated Penn State linebackers who donned the number (a list of players that includes current Cowboys<\/a> linebacker Micah Parsons<\/a>).<\/p>\n And yet Simms’ family “outvoted” him on the matter, he told\u00a0Gary Myers<\/a>.<\/p>\n