Giants’ Malik Nabers makes bold 2026 promise for ‘troll’ Jaxson Dart
When he returns from his torn ACL injury in 2026, expect New York Giants receiver Malik Nabers to immediately click with rookie quarterback Jaxson Dart, who has already led the team to two wins in three starts.
Dart took to Instagram to share pictures and videos from the Giants' Week 6 win against the Philadelphia Eagles, including the moment he high-fived a referee. Nabers was loving it, commenting, “U a troll bro [rolling on the floor emoji] me and u gone have sum fun!!!!”
Luckily, it appears Nabers is locked into the Giants' season, even if he isn't on the field with his teammates. He is recovering from his torn ACL injury that he suffered in Week 4 against the Los Angeles Chargers.
Malik Nabers will catch passes from Giants QB Jaxson Dart in 2026
In 2026, Nabers will rejoin the Giants as their top wide receiver. He went down during Dart's first start of the year against the Chargers.
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Before his injury, Nabers had two catches for 20 yards. Dart's first completion of his first start was to Nabers. He was on a tear through the first month of the season, with 16 catches for 251 yards and two touchdowns in the three games before Week 4.
Nabers is coming off a promising rookie season. He was targeted 170 times in 15 games, catching 109 passes for 1,204 yards and seven touchdowns. His quarterbacks that year included Daniel Jones, Tommy DeVito, Drew Lock, and Tim Boyle.
He was selected with the sixth-overall pick in the 2024 NFL Draft out of LSU. During his collegiate career, Nabers was named Unanimous All-American and First-team All-SEC in 2023.
The 2023 season was Nabers' best year. He caught 89 passes for 1,569 yards and 14 touchdowns. He had never eclipsed four touchdowns in any of his other two seasons at LSU.
Meanwhile, the Giants are rolling after beating the Eagles for the first time since Week 18 of the 2023 NFL season. The Giants dominated the game, and Dart threw for 195 yards and a touchdown. Additionally, he had 58 yards and a rushing touchdown.
Cam Skattebo was the MVP of the game, though. He had 98 yards on 19 carries, scoring three touchdowns on the ground. He also had 12 receiving yards on two catches.
Capitals get clutch goaltending and penalty-killing effort in fun intra-division win
The Washington Capitals secured a Big Apple sweep after dispatching the New York Rangers in an entertaining 1-0 victory on Sunday night. After a relatively easy stroll through the New York Islanders on Saturday, the Rangers provided more of a test, one that the Caps just barely passed.
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- The Capitals were far too leaky defensively in this game, especially compared to their lockdown effort on Long Island. The second period, in particular, was sloppy, and they seemed to keep putting themselves in bad situations through poor passing and decision-making. After 40 minutes, the Rangers had created 10 five-on-five high-danger chances compared to the Capitals’ two, and the Caps recorded zero in the entire second period. The good guys responded better in the third, really shutting things down in front of their goaltender, which is hopefully more of what we see moving forward.
- Charlie Lindgren was absolutely phenomenal, stopping all 35 shots that he faced in the 10th shutout of his career. Per MoneyPuck, Lindgren stopped 3.34 more goals than expected, while Jonathan Quick also had a great game for New York, stopping 1.17 more goals than expected. In his career against the Rangers, Lindgren is now 4-1 with a 1.19 goals-against average, a .957 save percentage, and two shutouts.
- Anthony Beauvillier scored the lone goal in the game, deftly tipping home another great pass from Alex Ovechkin. The assist was Ovechkin’s 1,625th career point, leaving him 16 points shy of tying Joe Sakic (1,641) for the 10th most points in NHL history.
- The win featured a rare bad night from Pierre-Luc Dubois and his linemates, Aliaksei Protas and Tom Wilson. With the three on the ice at five-on-five, the Capitals recorded negative differentials in shot attempts (-10), shots (-8), scoring chances (-5), and high-danger chances (-5). Dubois also left the game injured in the third period, with head coach Spencer Carbery providing no status update postgame.
- If Dubois does need to come out of the lineup, I would really love to see Ryan Leonard given more ice time. I’m about to drop a hot take here – I think Leonard is already the most dynamic Capitals player at speed with the puck on his stick. He can change the game by himself with one rush up the ice. He had one particular zone entry in this game where he beat three Rangers by himself and made a pinpoint pass to start the Caps on an attack. He has yet to play more than 13:13 of ice time in a game this season. His highest amount of ice time last season was 16:35, which I’d like to see again.
- I have to give some love to the penalty kill after questioning them in Sunday morning’s post. The PK went 2-for-2 at a very pivotal moment in the game, basically killing off four straight minutes of the second period. Lindgren was again a big part of that, but so were guys like Rasmus Sandin, Matt Roy, Nic Dowd, and Brandon Duhaime.
