EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — Jaxson Dart and the New York Giants could be without Malik Nabers for a while — and perhaps the rest of the season.
Jaxson Dart and the New York Giants could be without Malik Nabers for a while — and perhaps the rest of the season.
The star wide receiver was carted from the field with an injured right knee in the second quarter of the Giants’ 21-18 victory over the Los Angeles Chargers on Sunday.
“Don’t have much on the injury front,” coach Brian Daboll said after the game. “I haven’t talked to the trainers yet.”
The fear is it could be a serious injury to Nabers’ ACL, which would be a significant blow to the Giants’ offense.
“Obviously, prayers to him,” Dart said. “I don’t think we know exactly what happened, so he’s going to be one of my first phone calls to check on him. … Malik’s one of one. So when you have a guy like that on the field, you have all the confidence in the world that he can just be a dominant game-changer.”
Dart, making his first NFL start, launched a deep pass down the right sideline — a free play after the Chargers’ Troy Dye jumped offside — toward a streaking Nabers. The wide receiver’s right leg appeared to buckle as he went up to try to catch the pass, which fell incomplete.
Nabers, down at the Chargers 7 with 6:12 left before halftime, immediately grabbed at his right leg and was clearly in pain. Trainers rushed out to attend to Nabers, who was on the receiving end of Dart’s first NFL completion earlier in the game.
Several of Nabers’ teammates, including benched quarterback Russell Wilson, surrounded him before he was lifted onto the cart.
