Malik Nabers, he insisted afterward, truly didn’t know he could play until warmups. Until he felt good stretching and running routes. Until he got “a little chill through my body.”
“I was like, ‘Yeah, it’s time,’” Nabers said after the Giants’ 28-20 victory over the Cowboys in the season opener. “It’s time.”
Nabers’ family didn’t even come to the statement of a victory that opened the John Harbaugh era, with the star receiver questionable — despite being a full participant in practice the entire week — as his recovery from a torn ACL last season reached its final stages.
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