Daniel Bellinger due for surgery, out long-term; Evan Neal, Ben Bredeson week-to-week

All three Giants offensive starters who got hurt Sunday in Jacksonville will miss meaningful time, head coach Brian Daboll said Monday.

Rookie tight end Daniel Bellinger’s season could be in jeopardy due to an eye injury that will require surgery. Right tackle Evan Neal and left guard Ben Bredeson are both “week to week” with knee injuries.

Neal has a sprained left MCL, according to a source. Bellinger has a fracture around his eye socket and septum, per ESPN, after getting poked in the eye by Jaguars CB Tre Herndon.

“I think it’s probably too early to say when I expect him back,” Daboll said of Bellinger. “We’ll see how this thing goes. I’m hopeful for [him to return], but you never know when things like this happen.”

With Neal, it’s good news that he has a sprain and not a tear. He still could miss a month or so, however, given that ESPN is calling it a grade two sprain and Neal is a 6-7, 350-pound tackle with a lower body injury.

Bredeson’s specific injury is not yet known. Rookie Josh Ezeudu replaced Bredeson on Sunday, and third-year pro Tyre Phillips played in Neal’s stead.

Chris Myarick and Tanner Hudson are the only tight ends remaining on the active roster with Bellinger out, though the Giants did sign Lawrence Cager recently to their practice squad. Hudson had a big wrap on his left knee postgame Sunday, too.

DABOLL NOT SAYING MUCH

Daboll would not say whether the Giants’ 6-1 record has made him and GM Joe Schoen more eager to add reinforcements for a late season run.

“Our process has been the same since we’ve been here: control what you can control, improve each day,” Daboll said. “Obviously we always look to improve any area of the roster we can each week. We have players that come in and work out. And that’s pretty consistent with how we’ve been since we’ve been here. Our record is what our record is, but it’s our preparation and consistency of how we do things that are important to us.”

The Giants only had $3.3 million in salary cap space as of Monday afternoon, per the NFL players’ association’s database. So any signings will have to continue to be for minimum money.

FIRED UP FOR DANIEL

After Daniel Jones’ 1-yard rushing TD in Sunday’s fourth quarter, FOX cameras caught Daboll pushing QB coach Shea Tierney aside to speak with a fired-up Jones on the sideline. Daboll said: “[QB coach] Shea [Tierney] & I were both about to tell him the same thing, and I just wanted to tell him before Shea. Shea was on top of it. It was positive. I just wanted to get to him, talk to him, then get back on the headset with the other side of the ball. He just made a really good play on that quarterback sneak, made a good decision and had a good drive. So it was really all positive.”

RECORD DAY

Jones (107) and Saquon Barkley (110) became the first QB-RB Giants duo ever to both run for more than 100 yards in a single game on Sunday. According to the Elias Sports Bureau, Jones’ career high 107 yards are the fourth-highest total by a quarterback in Giants history and the most for a player at that position in 76 years.

Harry Newman ran for 114 yards against Green Bay on Nov. 11, 1934 and 108 yards at Boston on Oct. 8, 1933. Frank Filchock also had 108 rushing yards on Oct. 6, 1946 at Pittsburgh.

Barkley and Jones became just the third tandem of rushers to each top 100 rushing yards in a game in Giants history. The other two times it was running backs Ahmad Bradshaw and Brandon Jacobs on Dec. 23, 2007 against Buffalo (Bradshaw 151, Jacobs 143) and Dec. 13, 2010 against Minnesota (Bradshaw 116, Jacobs 103).

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