{"id":144958,"date":"2025-06-20T13:17:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T13:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/144958\/"},"modified":"2025-06-20T13:17:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T13:17:11","slug":"malik-nabers-named-new-york-giants-top-offensive-player-of-the-year-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/144958\/","title":{"rendered":"Malik Nabers named New York Giants&#8217; top Offensive Player of the Year candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/new-york-giants\/351\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:New York Giants;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">New York Giants<\/a> are hoping an improved quarterback situation will help star wideout Malik Nabers reach the upper echelon of wide receivers in the NFL.<\/p>\n<p>Coming off a historic campaign in which Nabers set the wide receiver record for receptions in a rookie season (109), it&#8217;s easy to see why there&#8217;s plenty of hype surrounding the 21-year-old. If not for the equally historic campaign from <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/las-vegas-raiders\/341\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Las Vegas Raiders;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Las Vegas Raiders<\/a> tight end Brock Bowers, we would be discussing Nabers&#8217; rookie season as one of the best in recent history.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>When looking at each team&#8217;s top candidate to win the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.profootballnetwork.com\/offensive-player-of-the-year-candidates-2025\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Offensive Player of the Year Award;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Offensive Player of the Year Award<\/a>, the decision was easy for Jacob Infante of Pro Football Network when it came to the Giants.<\/p>\n<p>Despite a disappointing season, the New York Giants seem to have found a franchise cornerstone in wide receiver Malik Nabers. As a rookie, he finished top 10 in the league in both receptions and receiving yards in a Pro Bowl campaign. With improved QB play expected in New York, Nabers could do even more damage this season.<\/p>\n<p>Winning the prestigious award is incredibly difficult, especially for a young wide receiver. Only three wide receivers since 2000 have earned the award. Otherwise, it&#8217;s essentially an award for quarterbacks and running backs.<\/p>\n<p>Nabers does have the chance to put together an elite career after what he showed during the 2024 season. Even if Russell Wilson is a shell of his former self as a 10-time Pro Bowler, he should be a vast improvement over what the Giants had under center last season.<\/p>\n<p>A betting man likely wouldn&#8217;t put his money on Nabers winning the award, but this is just a reminder of how vital the young superstar is to the Giants&#8217; offense.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Giants Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/giantswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/giants\/2025\/06\/20\/new-york-giants-malik-nabers-top-offensive-player-year-candidate\/84283469007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Malik Nabers named Giants&#039; top Offensive Player of the Year candidate;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Malik Nabers named Giants&#8217; top Offensive Player of the Year candidate<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York Giants are hoping an improved quarterback situation will help star wideout Malik Nabers reach the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2067],"tags":[797,7,519,393,4126,1917,56,2321,2469,6,7127,8345,572,6775],"class_list":{"0":"post-144958","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-giants","8":"tag-brock-bowers","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-giants","11":"tag-las-vegas-raiders","12":"tag-malik-nabers","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-giants","15":"tag-newyork","16":"tag-newyorkgiants","17":"tag-nfl","18":"tag-pro-football-network","19":"tag-rookie-season","20":"tag-russell-wilson","21":"tag-wide-receivers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114715888560810500","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}