In the wake of their come-from-behind victory over the San Francisco 49ers, the Giants players and coaches on Monday connected via Skype with tight end Daniel Fells, who is hospitalized and battling serious complications of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, a dangerous staph infection diagnosed in Fells’s foot.
While the Giants amiably conversed with their teammate from his hospital room, Fells’s football career may be over. Multiple surgeries to save Fells’s foot from amputation, and the attendant harm caused by the infection, have damaged the foot seriously enough that a football career may become an impossibility, according to people familiar with Fells’s treatment who were not authorized to speak on the record.