Nabers Is Questionable Again, and the Knee Keeps Coming Up

Malik Nabers is listed Questionable heading into this week, knee soreness the reason. It is the same knee he spent most of 2025 rehabbing after a torn ACL, and the fact that it is surfacing in Week 5 is worth noting plainly, without alarm but without dismissal either.

Nabers managed just four games last season before the injury ended his year. He returned to practice in late July, cleared enough hurdles to avoid the PUP list at camp, and was Questionable again after the preseason opener in August. That pattern — cleared, then flagged, then cleared again — has followed him into the regular season. In the four games he has appeared in this year, he has been limited enough that his numbers reflect a player still finding his footing rather than one operating freely.

The concern is not that one sore knee in October ends anything. It is that the Giants built their offensive vision around Nabers being healthy and available, and so far he has not been able to sustain either. Wan'Dale Robinson has been the one receiver who logged a full season's worth of work. The rest of the room has been patchwork. If Nabers cannot stay on the field, the offense McCarthy is trying to learn has a significant piece missing from it.

Nothing here is definitive. Questionable means he might play. But this is the third time in roughly two months that his status has required a qualifier, and that is the detail worth tracking.