Russell Wilson gushes over ‘warrior’ Malik Nabers, Giants receivers

They have already spoken. Soon enough, the Giants need their star wide receiver, Malik Nabers, and their new quarterback, Russell Wilson, to turn their words into action and exploits. 

After a sensational rookie season spent getting the ball thrown to him by Daniel Jones, Drew Lock and Tommy DeVito, perhaps Nabers will be able to reach an even higher level working with Wilson and his penchant for connecting deep down the field with his targets. 

Nabers in his NFL debut season had 109 receptions for 1,204 yards and seven touchdowns, at times admittedly frustrated when the ball did not come his way, and the losses (14 of them) piled up.

Now Nabers has a new guy tasked with getting the ball to him. 

“He’s an explosive athlete,” Wilson said Wednesday. “Just his ability to make plays. I love Malik, man. Just watching him, his personality on the field, his demeanor. I watched this one clip — I was watching a bunch of plays of him — and he caught this one catch against the Commanders on a shallow cross on a third down and he cut back inside, got another extra 20 yards. Got hit pretty good, he kind of laid the boom or vice versa, and he got up right away and just was celebrating, excited about the first down, and then moved on to the next play. 

“The competitor, the warrior that he is, there are a lot of guys like that. That same play I noticed that Theo [Johnson] was blocking down the field and making a huge block. Those kinds of things are what championship football looks like. Obviously, look, [Nabers] catches that screen against the Colts and takes it 80 yards, 70 yards, that’s pretty special. There are only so many human beings in the world who can do that, and he is one of them.”