results of its poll for the wide receiver position<\/a>. Despite having just one year of NFL experience under his belt, Giants star wide receiver Malik Nabers landed all the way up at No. 7.<\/p>\n“Nabers has the NFL’s full attention,” wrote ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler. “Surpassing 100 catches and 1,200 yards as a rookie in one of the league’s worst offenses with four different quarterbacks is rock-climbing-on-stilts difficult. The receptions total is the second most by a rookie in NFL history behind Raiders tight end Brock Bowers (112)…<\/p>\n
“Nabers will lead the charge for New York as it transitions at quarterback with Russell Wilson as the bridge and Jaxson Dart as the future.”<\/p>\n
The 21-year-old set a new franchise record with his 109 receptions, which resulted in 1,204 yards and seven touchdowns.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Nabers finished with the fifth-most receptions in the league, despite missing two games, while his 80.3 receiving yards per game ranked sixth overall.<\/p>\n
“He can go 0 to 60 in three seconds like a Ferrari, but he’s built like a truck,” an NFL personnel evaluator said of Nabers in the ESPN poll. “And he’s not even an elite route runner yet. Just wait until that happens.”<\/p>\n
Nabers registered 14 games with five or more catches, another all-time rookie record, while also leading all rookies in yards after contact (256), first downs (55) and missed tackles forced (19), according to Pro Football Focus.<\/p>\n
His success led to him being named to the Pro Bowl, in addition to making the PFWA All-Rookie Team.<\/p>\n
“Some guys are just different,” an NFC defensive coach told ESPN. “You don’t have to watch him long to know that.”<\/p>\n
Here are the top 10 wide receivers in ESPN’s poll:<\/p>\n
Ja’Marr Chase, Cincinnati Bengals
\nJustin Jefferson, Minnesota Vikings
\nTyreek Hill, Miami Dolphins
\nCeeDee Lamb, Dallas Cowboys
\nA.J. Brown, Philadelphia Eagles
\nAmon-Ra St. Brown, Detroit Lions
\nMalik Nabers, New York Giants
\nNico Collins, Houston Texans
\nMike Evans, Tampa Bay Buccaneers
\nGarrett Wilson, New York Jets<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Malik Nabers voted among the NFL’s top wide receivers in ESPN poll Continuing its annual tradition, ESPN recently…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214031,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2067],"tags":[7,519,8008,347,1917,56,2321,2469,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-214030","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-giants","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-giants","10":"tag-giants-now","11":"tag-homepage","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-giants","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkgiants","16":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114868259904806837","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214030","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=214030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}