Tommy Griffin is set to miss out on Kerry's opening games of the National Football League as he continues to recover from the serious ankle injury he endured last August.

The Dingle defender will need to undergo ankle reconstruction for the second time in his career but has decided to hold off in order to commit himself to another season with Jack O'Connor's charges.

"I've held off on an operation," Griffin told the Irish Examiner. "At my age, it's best to get what I can from what's left and rehab is the way to go even if it is rigorous.

"The other option just wasn't on for me right now. I saw a specialist in Dublin and was told it would have involved re-routing a tendon through the bone and replacing a ligament with a tendon. Pretty complicated stuff and far too much which would rule me out for a good bit."

Last August, the 32-year-old suffered a reoccurrence of the injury which he suffered in 2004 in which he ruptured two ligaments in the same ankle and it looks likely that he won't be in line for a return until after the Kingdom's date with Dublin at Croke Park in the NFL on February 26. Tweet

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