He told TMZ<\/a> on Monday he is back down to his playing weight of 270 pounds.<\/p>\nThe 36-year-old claims he is moving like he\u2019s 24 again.<\/p>\n
Jason Pierre-Paul won two Super Bowls. Getty Images<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve got abs!\u201d Pierre-Paul told TMZ. \u201cI haven\u2019t had abs since my rookie year. So that\u2019s how hard of work I\u2019m putting in.\u201d<\/p>\n
Pierre-Paul was drafted No. 15 overall by the Giants in 2010 and helped the team win the Super Bowl one year later.<\/p>\n
He spent eight years with Big Blue, making two Pro Bowls and posting a career-high 16 sacks in 2011 before losing his right index finger and damaging two others in a 2015 fireworks accident.<\/p>\n
Pierre-Paul played two more seasons for Big Blue before being traded to the Buccaneers for draft picks in 2018. <\/p>\n
He put together three strong seasons out of his four in Tampa, including making the Pro Bowl in 2020 as the team won its first Super Bowl with Tom Brady under center.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Pierre-Paul, however, has been a shell of himself since, with just 5.5 sacks over his final three NFL seasons. <\/p>\n
That included a stint with the Ravens in 2022 and splitting the 2023 season with the Saints and Dolphins for just three combined games.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Jason Pierre-Paul works out as he hopes to make a return to the NFL. Jason Pierre-Paul\/Instagram<\/p>\n
New York Giants defensive end Jason Pierre-Paul (90) waves to a fan during the second half against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers at Raymond James Stadium in 2015. USA Today Sports<\/p>\n
Pierre-Paul believes he can return to his best form, insisting to TMZ that he\u2019s \u201cstill got it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnybody that gives me the opportunity,\u201d the former South Florida star said. \u201cI\u2019m ready to go and I\u2019m ready to rock right now.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jason Pierre-Paul isn\u2019t giving up on an NFL return \u2014 doing everything he can to get back onto…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30100,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,11533,56,6,2592,9],"class_list":{"0":"post-30099","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-jason-pierre-paul","10":"tag-new-york-giants","11":"tag-nfl","12":"tag-nfl-free-agency","13":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114464588161314259","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}