The Giants suffered a crushing blow Wednesday when their worst fears were realized: franchise left tackle Andrew Thomas is out for the rest of the season 2024, sources confirmed to the Daily News. Thomas, 25, underwent surgery Wednesday morning to repair a Lisfranc injury in his foot, sources confirmed, ruling him out for the Giants’ final 11 games. He suffered the injury during Sunday’s third quarter touchdown drive against the Cincinnati Bengals and finished the game, but Thomas knew afterwards that something was very wrong. And the medical opinions he received early in the week confirmed that. The immediate operation is expected to help Thomas fully recover by OTAs next spring, a source said, but his absence will be devastating in the short term for a Giants (2-4) team averaging only 16 points per game with him. This snaps a streak of 419 consecutive snaps that the Giants’ offensive line has played together to start the season. They will host Saquon Barkley and the NFC East rival Philadelphia Eagles (3-2) on Sunday at MetLife Stadium. “You can’t replace Andrew Thomas,” head coach Brian Daboll said before Wednesday’s practice. Giants leadership internally blamed last season’s offensive struggles largely on Thomas’ Week 1 hamstring injury and eventual practice setback that basically forced the team to play without him for the first eight weeks. The Giants scored only eight total offensive touchdowns in their first eight games of 2023, including four in one half against Arizona and only four across the other seven games. They posted a 2-6 record and averaged 11.8 points per game as a team during that stretch, including a defensive touchdown in Miami. They finished the season scoring 15.6 points per game overall. Daniel Jones also hurt his neck on a crushing Dolphins hit with Josh Ezeudu playing left tackle in Week 5. Jones missed three games, returned against Las Vegas with Thomas in Week 9 and tore the ACL in his right knee to sideline the quarterback for the season. Fast forward to 2024, and Ezeudu is still the Giants’ top backup tackle. The question now is whether Joe Schoen and Daboll will move starting right tackle Jermaine Eluemunor to the left side to replace Thomas or if they’ll keep Eluemunor on the right and tab Ezeudu at left tackle. The Giants have postured as if Ezeudu is the backup left tackle and Evan Neal is the backup right tackle. But if they move Eluemunor to the left side, it will be interesting to see if they actually play Neal or if Ezeudu is still the top option on the right, too. That would not be surprising, considering Neal has not played a single snap all season — not on offense and not on special teams — despite being active for every game. Ezeudu, on the other hand, has played three offensive snaps and 20 on special teams. Daboll said Eluemunor would remain on the right side Wednesday but left the door open to moving him to the left side. The coach indicated that Ezeudu and Eluemunor would get opportunities on both sides in this week’s practices, and Daboll said that would inform the team’s decision Friday for Sunday’s game against the Eagles. Daboll also left the door open for the first time to giving Neal some reps on the left side eventually, although he said Neal would remain on the right for Wednesday. This juggling act provides a reminder that Schoen did not address his tackle depth in the offseason, despite the line allowing 85 sacks in 2023, the second-most in NFL history. Schoen targeted signings of veteran starters in left guard Jon Runyan Jr., Eluemunor and backup center Austin Schlottmann. But he did not make a meaningful tackle signing, and he did not draft a single offensive lineman in April, even though the Giants had a major need for a backup swing tackle on the roster. Thomas’ season-ending surgery means he will have played only 16 of the Giants’ 34 games in the 2023 and 2024 seasons since he signed a five-year, $117.5 million contract extension in July 2023. Dr. Robert Anderson, a top foot specialist based in Charlotte, N.C., did Thomas’ surgery on Wednesday. Anderson is the same doctor who repaired Thomas’ left ankle properly to set the stage for the left tackle’s breakout 2022 season. Thomas, the Giants’ No. 4 overall pick in 2020, initially underwent surgery on his left ankle after his 2020 rookie season with a different doctor that did not fully repair his ailment. When Thomas found Anderson, who was then based in Green Bay, the following offseason, the doctor cleaned up his ankle properly. And Thomas, not coincidentally, had his best NFL season, made second-team All-Pro and helped lead the Giants to their first playoff berth since 2016 and their first postseason victory since 2011. Now, however, Thomas is back on the shelf — and the Giants’ 2024 season is going there with him.