Justin Herbert might want to stock up on chicken broth and electrolytes. He spent a lot of time around Brian Burns.

It wasn't voluntary.

"I don't know what the hell I got," the outside linebacker said after the Giants' 21-18 victory over the Chargers, "but I'm sick."

Brian Daboll had revealed moments earlier in his postgame press conference that Burns, one of five team captains, gutted through the late September game that reached mid-80s on the thermometer in East Rutherford. Burns admitted it was "aggravating" as he used precious breaths in between plays on coughing and hacking up mucus.

Nevertheless, Burns racked up four of the Giants' 12 quarterback hits on the early MVP candidate.

"I saw Burns after, I saw him during the game, and he is spent," Daboll said. "Not saying it's the [M

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