Will Malik Nabers be ready for Week 1? Giants GM weighs in

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WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W.Va. — Will star wide receiver Malik Nabers be ready for Week 1?


That question continues to linger, as the Giants on Wednesday held their first training camp practice at The Greenbrier resort.


Before practice, general manager Joe Schoen said he remains hopeful that Nabers will play in Week 1 — but wouldn’t make any guarantees.


“We’re going to see,” Schoen said. “The medical staff has a really good plan for him. We’re going to listen to the patient, so we’re going to see how he reacts. As long as everything goes as planned, we’ll listen to Malik and his body. And hopefully, he’ll be ready.


“But no predictions right now, just because we have a long way to go still, a lot of camp. We had a flight [Tuesday], and he’s still working through some things.”


Schoen said Nabers recently has been running routes and cutting while rehabbing — a positive development.


Nabers did not begin camp on the physically unable to perform list, but he is still rehabbing last season’s serious knee injury.


Nabers tore his ACL and also underwent a full meniscus repair, which can prolong a player’s rehab process. Plus, Nabers this offseason had a second surgery, to clean up scar tissue.


That second procedure raised questions about how soon Nabers would get back on the practice field — and whether he’d be ready for coach John Harbaugh’s Giants debut, a massive Sunday night home game against the Cowboys on Sept. 13.


Quite obviously, the Giants need Nabers, since he is their offense’s most fearsome weapon.


Nabers did nothing during practice in the spring, raising concerns that he might begin camp on the PUP list — which would let the Giants free up his roster spot for as long as he remained on that list.


If Nabers had started camp on the PUP list, he technically could have remained on that list into the regular season. But it’s a good sign for the Giants that he wound up not landing on the list at all.


Whether that means he definitely will be ready for Week 1 remains to be seen.

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