Giants GM Jerry Reese speaks with Jason Pierre-Paul for first time

The Giants have gotten in touch with the star defensive end for the first time since the July 4 accident that left him without a right index finger. But when Barnes and former Giants linebacker Jessie Armstead went to Miami in the days after the accident, JPP and his advisors wouldn’t let them into his hospital room.

The biggest concern for the Giants has been Pierre-Paul’s health, how his injured hand is cared for, healing, and will effect his quality of life.

Mara’s only contact with Pierre-Paul was in a text message in which the player described the injury as a bump in the road and that he would be back as good as ever.

He was seen on Friday as a truck arrived to take away one of his cars, reported by the New York Daily News.

Despite the eloquent statement on his shirt, the lineman has had little communication with his team. “We miss you”. “I don’t know how many fingers he has”.

“We would be open to discussing anything”, Mara said.

The fireworks accident, in which Pierre-Paul also fractured his thumb, occurred after he posted a picture of a U-Haul full of the explosives online. The team has not rescinded the $14.8 million franchise tag extended to Pierre-Paul in March, although the expectation is that the price will have to be negotiated once Pierre-Paul reports to the Giants and they can check him medically.

But if he’s not healthy enough to play, the Giants will put him on the non-football injury list, which means they won’t have to pay him.

Posts on social media from Independence Day celebrations showed a van supposedly filled with fireworks that Pierre-Paul had rented.

Mara invited Pierre-Paul to come to Giants headquarters for treatment, reiterating that anyone telling him not to do that is giving him bad advice.

Meanwhile, a source told ESPN that the timetable for the lineman’s recovery remained on schedule at around six weeks from his surgery on July 8th. Meaning he can not raise weights as he usually would or do any rehab that includes the hand, however he is ready to work out to a sure extent. Each would nonetheless should estimate each how lengthy his hand nonetheless must heal and the way for much longer after that he would wish to rehab to the objective the place he can play.

During his first press conference of training camp over the weekend, Jerry Reese took a different tone on the Pierre-Paul situation than we had seen in the recent past.

The defensive end is reportedly unable to lift weights but has still been working out.