Giants’ TE Daniel Fells could lose foot to infection

He recently had his fifth surgery on his foot, but doctors have not been able to clear the infection.

Fells’ situation is not the first time MRSA has been a problem in the NFL. He was given a cortisone shot for the pain and coach Tom Coughlin was optimistic he’d play last week.

Giants tight end Daniel Fells’s MRSA infection is so serious that he could have to have his foot amputated. It was later determined his ankle was infected with MRSA.

Fells was placed in an intensive care unit on Friday, and reportedly has had five surgeries.

The GIants, meanwhile, have taken ever precaution possible at their own facility to invite a greater spread of MRSA, having their entire practice facility scrubbed on Tuesday and briefing players on the condition Wednesday.

There is a very real chance that the fallout from the infection, which caused Fells to have a 104-degree temperature when he was in the ER, could end his seven-year career in the NFL.

Daniel Fells is on the Giants’ injured reserve list, ending his season.

The NFL.com article quoted a statement from Pat Hanlon, a spokesman for the Giants, which said that Fells’s ordeal “has been taken seriously from the beginning”, and that everyone in the organization is “fighting for Daniel”.

As a team, the Giants have also reacted, working with infectious disease specialists earlier in the week, and these experts defined protocols to follow in consultation with Duke Infection Control Outreach Network and others locally.