Giants move on from Malik Nabers injury scare: ‘No concern’
NY Post
The Giants’ Malik Nabers injury scare appears to be just that — and nothing worse.
Brian Daboll said the rookie wideout, added to the injury report Thursday after experiencing knee soreness, will practice Friday and is expected to be available for Sunday’s game against the Commanders.
Nabers, the No. 6 overall pick in April, caught five passes for 66 yards during the Giants’ season-opening loss and has quickly emerged as Daniel Jones’ top target.
“No concern,” Daboll said. “He’ll be ready to play.”
Daboll also said wideout Darius Slayton (concussion) was cleared to practice with contact Friday and is “trending in the right direction,” but he still has one more stage of the protocol to clear.
The more significant variable, though, revolved around Nabers.
With the Yankees on an impressive run of mostly correct decisions, there’s some reason to leave them alone and just let the best team in the American League continue to roll. But they did raise serious doubt and leave room for suggestions (and even ridicule) following maybe the most inexplicable decision of this season, or any season.
The Giants have never been 0-2 under Brian Daboll, until now. They were 2-0 and flying high in 2022 and 1-1 after a rousing comeback in Arizona in 2023. So, this represents a low point as far as early-season difficulties for Daboll and the Giants. They had no business beating the Vikings in the opener and no business losing to the Commanders in Week 2. But here they are.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Harrison Butker kept making a lonely walk to midfield after each quarter Sunday to check on the direction of the wind, which tends to swirl inside Arrowhead Stadium. He did it one last time during the 2-minute warning, when his Chiefs were trailing the Bengals by two and trying to give him a winning field-goal attempt.