In some ways, Malik Nabers has not really, truly stepped onto the grand stage of the New York-New Jersey market.<\/p>\n
He played 15 games for the Giants in his rookie season. That counts. It means he put down a foundation for his NFL development, and after a record-setting debut<\/a>, he set a high standard for lofty expectations.<\/p>\n In a sense, though, Nabers has not truly experienced what it means to be a part of the area\u2019s sports landscape when things are really cooking, when enthusiasm is rising and there is a palpable feeling of energy and excitement coursing through the fans and players alike.<\/p>\n The Giants won three games in 2024, and Nabers played in two of those victories. He missed two games as a rookie dealing with a concussion. In the games he appeared in, he twice walked off the field as a winner and 13 times on the losing end. By Halloween, Nabers and the Giants were 2-6. By Thanksgiving evening, they were 2-10. By Christmas, they were 2-13. There was no semblance of anything promising after their 2-3 start and it all weighed on Nabers, who expressed plenty of frustration<\/a> dealing with the worst losing stretch of his football career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In some ways, Malik Nabers has not really, truly stepped onto the grand stage of the New York-New…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157133,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2067],"tags":[200,7,519,7194,4126,1917,56,2321,2469,6,7195,572,9,3248],"class_list":{"0":"post-157132","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-giants","8":"tag-brian-daboll","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-giants","11":"tag-inside-the-giants","12":"tag-malik-nabers","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-giants","15":"tag-newyork","16":"tag-newyorkgiants","17":"tag-nfl","18":"tag-post-sports-newsletters","19":"tag-russell-wilson","20":"tag-sports","21":"tag-sports-plus"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114743590922721381","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157132","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=157132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}