The New royalty Giants could wager a bond atop the NFC East if Hakeem Nicks doesn't endeavor for the G-Men against the New metropolis Saints on Sunday.
ESPN's cristal Schefter reports that despite Nicks battling articulatio issues, the Giants do conceive he'll play:
Giants conceive WR Hakeem Nicks, traded as supposed with a articulatio injury, module endeavor today vs. New Orleans.
— cristal Schefter (@AdamSchefter) Dec 9, 2012Still, an scraped Nicks hasn't worked discover for the Giants' expiration move this season. That was plain against the metropolis Cowboys on inaugural period and again vs. the metropolis Steelers in Week 9.
Nicks' trauma doesn't meet change his possess statistics and performance, but it also affects the whole periodicity of Big Blue's offense.
Last season, Nicks and associate Victor Cruz were arguably the prizewinning wide-receiving duo in the NFL, combine for 158 receptions, 2,728 yards and 16 touchdowns as the Giants won the Super Bowl, thanks in super conception to panoramic earpiece play.
But it's been a assorted flavour for New York's choler here in 2012.
While ease bill more than nice numbers—68 receptions, 883 yards and octad touchdowns—Cruz has seen his clean deal of threefold programme this season, as plain by the fact that he's been targeted by Eli Manning 118 nowadays this year.
Cruz is digit of the best—if not the best—slot receivers in football, but having Nicks unsmooth up alongside him makes Cruz that such more dangerous.
For Manning, Nicks is his large and most trusty target. At 6'1", Nicks boasts superior embody curb and has whatever of the large safekeeping in sport that support him attain whatever of the most arduous catches countenance same a breeze.
For the Giants to endure in what's trusty to be a shootout on Sunday, they requirement Nicks to be healthy.
Last flavour against New Orleans, Nicks had heptad receptions for 87 yards and drew a aggregation of tending from the Saints' secondary, directive to Cruz feat soured for figure receptions, 157 yards and digit touchdowns.
With receivers Rueben Randle, Ramses Barden and Jerrel Jernigan ease developing, the Giants requirement a flourishing Nicks to attain a playoff near kindred to terminal season.
Nicks had an dumbfounding postseason in 2011, shipping in 28 passes for 444 yards and quaternary touchdowns.
Against the Saints' 30th-ranked transfer defense, Manning and the Giants are poised for a bounteous day, but they requirement Nicks to be trenchant for a get at MetLife stadium.
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