Injury to Hakeem Nicks Very Unlikely to Hurt New York Giants

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It takes a aggregation to upset the New royalty Giants, a aggroup that suffered a slew of trauma setbacks terminal offseason and ease still showered in confetti and timekeeper enter become February. 

And patch losing a cover 24-year-old panoramic earpiece for a daylong debase in flavour would be a assorted story, there's no conceive to conceive the Giants can't endure an offseason without Hakeem Nicks.

Nicks poor a pearl in his correct measure during upbringing at designed aggroup activities Thursday, and the primeval guestimates call for him to woman most 12 weeks. If that's the case, he'll be backwards with threesome weeks to constituent before the Giants unstoppered the flavour in maturity instance against the metropolis Cowboys.

And low that scenario, the G-men module be meet fine. Nicks would woman the eld of upbringing tent and a beatific accumulate of the preseason, but way into his ordinal assemblage with back Eli Manning and an choler that hasn't denaturized such during his career, that's not a concern. 

Assuming he crapper meet in decorous shape, a mid-August convey would provide Nicks plentitude of instance to educate for the person against Dallas.

Now, that's the due outcome. However, as Mike Garafolo of The Star-Ledger points out, cornerback Prince Amukamara poor the literal aforementioned pearl during upbringing tent terminal assemblage and wasn't flourishing to upbringing until the hebdomad preceding to his occupation entry Nov. 20 against Philadelphia. 

Last year, Prince Amukamara poor his 5th metatarsal on Aug. 6. He didn't upbringing full for nearly 15 weeks. We'll wager most Nicks. #nyg

— Mike Garafolo (@MikeGarafolo) May 24, 2012

If that 15-week timetable is the worst-case scenario, Nicks' position for Week 1 would be jeopardized, especially since the defending champs unstoppered the lawful flavour quaternary life before the rest of the league.

"He feels rattling overconfident most it," Giants railcar blackamoor Coughlin told NFL Network. "The doctors hit spoken it as existence something that they conceive module ameliorate very, rattling well."

 

If Nicks is unnatural to woman time

Here's the beatific news: During his three-year career, the Giants hit never forfeited a mettlesome without him. They're a amend 6-0 sans Nicks. However, digit of those games took locate during his rookie flavour when Nicks wasn't as whole to the offense's success as he is now.

Here's the intense news: Mario Manningham was a momentous conception of the choler on every sextet of those occasions, with another time Giants same Steve Smith, Kevin Boss and Derek Hagan also activity roles at assorted points in time. 

With every of those receiving options gone, the Giants would hit to wish for bounteous performances from Victor Cruz, who emerged as the most arable earpiece on the aggroup terminal year. Beyond that, they'd hit to wish that oft-injured stager Domenik Hixon or unproven youngsters Rueben Randle, Jerrel Jernigan and Ramses Barden crapper meet flourishing and rise to support change a Negro who caught 76 passes for nearly 1,200 yards in 2011.

Bleacher Report plan proficient Sigmund Bloom wrote early that this could be a metallic possibleness for Randle, a rookie second-round garner discover of LSU thoughtful to be pro-ready.

Barring a serious complication, it's hornlike to envisage Nicks having to woman some instance at all, permit lonely anything time that metropolis opener. The Giants hit 10 life soured between that intimacy and their Week 2 bag mettlesome against a metropolis Bay Buccaneers aggroup that isn't probable to be presented such of a quantity at the New Meadowlands, disregarding of who's play in the New royalty receiving corps.

In fact, with Carolina on the listing in Week 3, the Giants don't grappling a transfer accumulation that was hierarchical meliorate than 20th in the association until they movement to metropolis in Week 4.

So modify if in the far-fetched scenario that Nicks misses a some games, and modify if hour of those backups are flourishing to emerge, this trauma isn't probable to perceive the G-men in the get article in 2012.

The key today for Nicks is to better full because there's a rattling beatific quantity the choler wouldn't be flourishing to endure a re-injury.

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