Malik Nabers spoke to John Harbaugh about “trying to give me the ball down the field”

Giants wide receiver Malik Nabers had his most productive day of the season in last Sunday’s win over the Cardinals, but he said on Wednesday that he feels “like that was a basic game” rather than a breakthrough as he continues working his way back from last season’s torn ACL.

Nabers caught six passes for 112 yards and a touchdown that he followed up by letting head coach John Harbaugh know that he wanted the team to keep feeding him the ball. That didn’t happen in the second half as Nabers only had one catch in the final 30 minutes and he explained why he was animated in discussions with the sideline in those moments.

“I felt like I didn’t get targeted much after halftime,” Nabers said, via a transcript from the team. “So, that was just a thing. It’s just – I felt like creating explosives down the field was just helping us get in a better position to score touchdowns. Some of those plays didn’t come my way, so just trying to figure out why.”

Nabers revisited the issue with Harbaugh after the game and shared that the conversation was about the kinds of adjustments that the team is making during halftime.

“Just also trying to give me the ball down the field to create some of those opportunities for us to gain more points,” Nabers said. “It felt like during the first half when we did that, it kind of led into the right direction with scoring touchdowns in the red zone. And just — after that, we just couldn’t get going. So, I felt like the offense was needing a spark and I wanted to be that spark, so I was just trying to figure out what was going on, and what was the thought process on going into after halftime and coming out, what was the talk that he had with the coaches on implementing things down the field — we had a talk about it.”

Nabers didn’t practice on Wednesday and is listed with a knee he said was “a little bit more sore” than usual. He said that they’ll see how things go the rest of the week when asked if it could impact his availability against the Commanders this Sunday and that will have to play out before we find out if the Giants will be feeding their top wideout the ball more often.