EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- It's not that Jason Pierre-Paul never reached out to children before, or that he's never spent time visiting sick kids in the hospital.
He has. It's just that, after all that's happened to the New York Giants' defensive end this year, it feels different to him now.
"I'm a role model," Pierre-Paul said after the Giants' practice Monday. "I'm a father now myself. And I know my own son, I'm only going to be able to tell him so much. He's going to look up to someone other than me.