During the preseason, we were all wondering if Malik Nabers would even be healthy for the start of the season after he had April clean-up surgery following the torn ACL and meniscus injury he suffered in 2025. Now, he looks like a top-five wide receiver who is building off a superb rookie year and poised to carry a rejuvenated Giants team to a division title, with a QB carousel in tow. He put up video game numbers in October: He's the first player with four straight 100-yard receiving games, all with non-Week 1 starting QBs (for the sake of brevity, I'll call them "backups"), since Cris Carter in 1999.
It's tied for the longest streak by any player since the 1970 merger, with the likes of Carter, Rob Moore, Jerry Rice and Carl Pickens. That means if he hits the century mark on Sunday vs. Philadelphia, he will be the only player since the merger with five straight 100-yard games with backup quarterbacks.
He has as many 100-yard receiving games as the rest of the NFL combined with backup QBs this year (four). That's just the tip of the iceberg, too. He's been putting up video game numbers with everyone he's played with since donning a Giants uniform.
They used Daniel Jones, Drew Lock and Tommy DeVito in 2024, plus Jaxson Dart, Russell Wilson and Jameis Winston in 2025. All told, Nabers is the only player in NFL history with a 100-yard receiving game with five different starting QBs (Jones, Lock, Wilson, Winston, McCarthy) within his first 30 career games. The only others to hit that mark in their first three seasons were DeAndre Hopkins and George Pickens.
He's quickly developing the highly sought-after reputation as "QB proof". The aforementioned DeAndre Hopkins and Larry Fitzgerald, of course. Hopkins' legend starts with this fact: He is the only player in NFL history to have a 100-yard receiving game with four different starting QBs in a season.
He did this in 2015 with the who's who of backup quarterbacks — Brian Hoyer, Ryan Mallett, T.J. Yates and Brandon Weeden. Hopkins had a 100-yard receiving game with 12 different starting QBs in his career, tied for the most in NFL history.
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