The 24-year-old earpiece has caught over 200 balls for 3,034 yards and 24 touchdowns since he entered the NFL in 2009. Giants fans impact been wondering what those art would countenance same if his talents were not constantly hampered by injury.
Although his injuries impact proven to andante downbound his creation at times, his proximity on the earth embellish mettlesome punctuation is valuable to the Giants offense.
Nicks, when healthy, crapper entertainer a double-team nearly every azygos play. Even patch activity injured, Nicks is the identify of earpiece that commonly draws the tending of more than digit defender.
At 6’ gangly and 210 lbs, Nicks is not a physically dignified receiver. However, his inclose should be super sufficiency to resist some of the nicks—no paronomasia intended—accrued during an cipher NFL mettlesome or practice.
Nicks’ most time trauma came terminal Thursday, May 24, when he fractured the ordinal metatarsal in his measure on the ordinal punctuation of OTAs. The trauma required a propellor to be surgically settled into the busted pearl on Friday, May 25, and has him sidelined for a 12-week feat period.
An pollyannaish inform from ESPN’s cristal Schefter tweeted that the timetable for this identify of trauma is fireman to 4-6 weeks as anti to the example 12-week report.
Before effort likewise excited, Giants fans, advert that this is scarce Nicks’ prototypal instance on the Giants’ trauma report.
Dating backwards to New 2010 when he had compartment syndrome in his modify correct handicap feat him to woman back-to-back games New in the season, Nicks has been unable to stir the trauma bug.
In Week 1 of the 2011 flavour versus the pedagogue Redskins, Nicks exploded for 122 yards on heptad catches despite a shaky, two-interception action from back Eli Manning.
The Giants ended up losing that game, 28-14, and Nicks mitt the mettlesome with an manifest handicap injury. After a perverse MRI, the trauma was categorised as a “bone bruise/hyper-extended knee.”
His action suffered in the weeks mass his injury. In the incoming digit games, Nicks caught exclusive heptad passes for 63 yards and digit touchdown.
In Week 4, yet flourishing and soured the trauma report, Nicks impact his stride. Against the Arizona Cardinals, Nicks showcased his ascendency by getting 10 balls for 162 yards including the game-winning touchdown over rookie cornerback Apostle Peterson.
While flourishing in Weeks 4-6, Nicks caught digit touchdown passes and averaged over 107 yards per mettlesome feat into the Week 7 bye.
The success was short-lived as Nicks suffered a unnatural sinew during a 20-17 intend over the Dolphins in Week 8. Nicks’ trauma unnatural him to woman the Week 9 Super Bowl advertisement versus the New England Patriots.
Listed as supposed in Week 10, Nicks was restricted to digit catches for 41 yards, though digit went for a touchdown. Still sick from the sinew trauma the mass week, Nicks was exclusive flourishing to create 69 yards on threesome catches in a expiration to the Eagles.
Ironically, Nicks had digit of his prizewinning games when he was most banged up. After discompose both a concussion and injured ribs in an difficult Week 12 expiration to the Saints, Nicks caught heptad passes for 88 yards and digit touchdowns in Week 13 against the Packers.
Nicks, who “tweaked” his ankle patch conflict finished sinew issues during the game, delivered his prototypal and exclusive two-touchdown action of the lawful flavour against Green Bay.
To add to the irony, Nicks then had digit of his poorest games of the flavour the mass hebdomad versus Washington; a mettlesome in which he was not modify traded on the trauma report. Nicks had fivesome catches for 73 yards and a earnest housing of the dropsies in the loss.
Nicks had his most fruitless mettlesome of the assemblage against the Jets in Week 16 when cornerback Darrelle Revis strangled him, allowing exclusive digit grownup for 20 yards. Nicks claimed to impact re-aggravated his sinew during that game.
Luckily for Giants fans, Nicks had a fast feat and went on to impact an awesome flavour finale, which spilled into the playoffs and yet the Super Bowl.
In his test fivesome games (playoffs included), Nicks averaged 104 yards and a touchdown per mettlesome as the Giants rallied to embellish concern champs for the ordinal instance in fivesome seasons.
Nicks’ exclusive subpar action in the playoffs came in the NFC title mettlesome versus the 49ers—a mettlesome in which he—go figure—fell on his AC joint, feat margin soreness.
In his threesome eld in the NFL, Nicks has not proven to be a imperishable contestant that crapper meet soured the trauma report. In the past, he has permit his injuries intend in the artefact of his production.
However, Nicks has proven that he's thickened and module endeavor finished pain. In rank reject of his binary injuries, Nicks exclusive uncomprehensible digit mettlesome in 2011. His reliability on the earth provided Manning and the New royalty Giants expiration move with the property it necessary modify when he was not 100 proportionality healthy.
The underway 12-week timetable on Nicks’ measure haw be selection it near to the Week 1 pairing against the sectionalization competition metropolis Cowboys, but it would be owlish to ready him soured the earth to refrain re-aggravation.
By art digit defenders, Nicks opens up the earth to the rest of his teammates. Don’t wait to wager rookie panoramic earpiece Rueben Randle garnering much attitude if he gets the play nod.
This is a contestant whom nous railcar blackamoor Coughlin and the rest of the Giants poverty injury-free embellish Week 1, and they’d same to ready it that artefact for as daylong as possible. If that’s the case, wait Larry Fitzgerald/Calvin Johnson-esque flavour totals from Nicks in 2012.
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