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You might misdiagnose a strain as grade 1 when it's actually grade 2, or grade 2 when it's actually grade three, but it's not as common to call something a grade 3 and then step it back to grade 2.
It happens.  You see those sorts of things in baseball where one doc recommends surgery and another rest and rehab.  That's a borderline call when one doctor believes it to be just that side of a grade 3 (aka, requiring surgery) and the other think it's barely on this side of a grade 2, where the body might knit itself back together faster than the surgery recovery time.
But calling something a definite grade 3 means they decided muscle fibers were either severed from each other across too large an area for natural healing, or he tore the muscle right off the bone, so they're not going to knit back together any more than a snipped rubber band will magically heal itself to allow you to shoot it at your little sister.
When you say Grade 3 strain, you mean surgery.  When you say pec surgery to knit one the largest and strongest chest muscles back together (and by this I mean reattach a tendon to its bone anchor, in most cases), you mean that dude is done for the year.
If he HAS a Grade 3 strain, he's done.  Unless you hear him shopping for a second opinion, put a cork in his season.
~G