EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Giants coaches and players gather for the traditional start of their workweek every Wednesday morning, but this week, the meeting in the team’s auditorium was not about blocking, tackling or anything to do with football.
On Monday night, the Giants’ locker room, meeting areas and training rooms had been scrubbed with disinfectant because tight end Daniel Fells had been hospitalized with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, a dangerous bacterial infection.
At the Wednesday morning meeting, players concerned for their health had questions about how the team’s training complex had been sanitized and what additional precautions were being taken to prevent the spread of the infection.