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Pierre-Paul encourages boy, 11, who lost fingers

Jason Pierre-Paul's recovery from his July 4 fireworks accident has gone well beyond the football field, and he's using what happened to him as a way to reach out and help people in similar situations.

According to NJ.com, Pierre-Paul recently had a FaceTime conversation with an 11-year-old boy in Pennsylvania who had to have parts of two fingers amputated after getting his hand caught in a bicycle chain.

The boy's plastic surgeon told him to look up Pierre-Paul's story, and his sister, Janie, reached out to Pierre-Paul via Twitter. Pierre-Paul replied and set up a FaceTime conversation with the boy, Seamus Bohannon of Folsom, Pennsylvania.