Daniel Fells scores a touchdown with the Giants in 2014. The tight end retired in July of 2016. Credit: Getty Images/Patrick Smith
The prognosis was terrifying.
Just weeks earlier, Daniel Fells was catching passes from Eli Manning, trying to help the Giants get back to the playoffs for the first time since their Super Bowl season in 2011. But now, as he lay in a hospital bed in Hackensack, New Jersey, he was told he might lose his right leg.
Or worse.
“The doctors said if this doesn’t work, we’re going to have to either amputate and .