Any optimism the Giants had about Jason Pierre-Paul’s condition is gone now.
According to Jordan Raanan of ESPN.com, the Giants defensive end had surgery this morning to repair a sports hernia, which should end his season.
The recovery time is pegged at six weeks, and with four weeks of regular season left, it’s effectively a year-ender unless the Giants make a deep playoff run.
Pierre-Paul left Sunday’s loss to the Steelers with a groin injury, and spent yesterday visiting noted surgeon Dr. William Meyers in Philadelphia. The Giants were hoping surgery could be avoided and that he might just miss a few games, but that apparently wasn’t the case.
It also puts a dent in Pierre-Paul’s pending free agency, as he was having a strong recent run (5.5 sacks in the two games before the Steelers game), and once again will enter the market coming off surgical repairs, after losing fingers in a fireworks accident last year.