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New York Giants left guard Shane Lemieux is currently on IR with a knee injury. He was placed on injured reserve aft her Giants’ Week 1 loss to the Denver Broncos.
Lemieux played just 17 snaps in the game before realizing he could not continue to play on the patellar tendon he (reportedly) partially tore in the preseason.
Lemieux is eligible to come off IR in two weeks, but whether or not he’s ready to play is still very much in question. Surgery could still be in his future.
“From everything we’ve talked about, we can’t rule anything out right now in terms of something being over,” head coach Joe Judge said on Monday. “He’ll obviously have to wait and see how his body responds. I’m very hopeful that he can come back, but that being said, I don’t have a crystal ball right now on that.
“I know he’s talking to the doctor about a couple different procedures right now, so we’ll see where that goes.”
The Giants are in a bind on the interior of their line at the moment. Nick Gates, the starting center, was lost for the year with a fractured leg. That has left two recent acquisitions — Billy Price and Ben Bredeson — to be thrust into the starting lineup at center and guard.
The Giants are wafer thin on the line as it is. They have just seven offensive linemen on the active roster — Price, Bredeson, Will Hernandez, Nate Solder, Andrew Thomas, Matt Peart and Matt Skura.
Currently, Peart is the key swing man at both tackle and guard, and Skura is predominantly a center.
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