EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — Despite missing two games with a concussion, Malik Nabers is having an excellent rookie season with the New York Giants.
The No. 6 overall pick, Nabers has caught 46 passes for 498 yards and three touchdowns. His catches are the eighth best in the league behind Raiders tight end Brock Bowers (52) and his yardage is 17th overall, 176 yards behind Ja'Marr Chase of the Bengals.
Quarterback Daniel Jones has targeted the LSU product 73 times, the second highest total behind Garrett Wilson of the Jets, who played Thursday night.
The jump to pro football has not been a problem for Nabers, except for one thing, and it's not the Giants 2-6 record. Nabers is upset he's dropped some passes. He's had five this season, tied for the fourth most in the NFL.
The one that most fans remember came in the second week of the season when the Giants were tied with Washington near the two-minute warning. Nabers dropped a fourth-down pass that would have given New York a first down near the Commanders 10.
Jayden Daniels, a fellow rookie and Nabers' quarterback at LSU, then led the Commanders on a winning field goal drive. The Giants had gone for a first down because placekicker Graham Gano was hurt on the opening play of the game and was not available.
Nabers, who had 10 catches for 127 yards and a TD that day, said he has flushed the game and is looking forward to Sunday and hoping to play better.
“I’m still always trying to get better at not dropping the ball,” Nabers said Thursday after practice. “It’s something that I’m not trying to do. It just happens. So, I don’t want people to just think I’m trying to drop the ball. It’s just something that happens in the game.”
Nabers said he needs to attack the ball and not let it hit him in the chest. It happens when his feet either aren't in the right position or he is leaning forward to catch the ball.
It bothers him to no end.
Playing the game is still fun, and challenging. He got a lot of one-on-one coverage early in the season. Now teams are playing a safety over the top of him and cornerback underneath.
“It’s not fun getting double-teamed,” Nabers said. “But it’s kudos to me for what I’ve been doing on the field. So, the defense doesn’t want me to get a lot of catches, get a lot of yards.”
Getting double-covered is nothing new for Nabers. It was a constant in college. He found ways to succeed and that's want he wants to do again.
“I’d still rather be one-on-one,” he quipped.
Nabers needs four receptions Sunday to the Rams' Puka Nacua (58) as the only players in NFL history with at least 50 receptions in their first seven career games. He would need 102 yards receiving against Washington to become the fifth player in the Super Bowl era with at least 600 yards receiving in their first seven games, joining Chase (754), Nacua (752), Anquan Boldin (621) of the Cardinals and former Giant Odell Beckham Jr. (609).
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FILE - New York Giants wide receiver Malik Nabers (1) is tackled by Pittsburgh Steelers cornerback Beanie Bishop Jr. (31) after making a catch during the first half of an NFL football game Monday, Oct. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A grand jury in Nevada has again indicted Nathan Chasing Horse on charges that he sexually abused Indigenous women and girls, reviving a sweeping criminal case against the former “Dances with Wolves” actor.
The 21-count indictment unsealed Thursday in Clark County District Court, which includes Las Vegas, expands on his previous charges of sexual assault, lewdness and kidnapping to include charges of producing and possessing child sexual abuse materials.
It comes after more than a year of delayed court proceedings that culminated last month in the Nevada Supreme Court ordering the dismissal of Chasing Horse's original 18-count indictment. The court sided with Chasing Horse, saying in its scathing order that prosecutors had abused the grand jury process. But the court left open the possibility for charges to be refiled.
Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson quickly vowed to seek another indictment. Neither Wolfson nor a spokesperson for his office immediately responded Thursday to phone or emailed requests for comment.
Best known for portraying the character Smiles A Lot in the 1990 movie “Dances with Wolves,” Chasing Horse was born on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota, which is home to the Sicangu Sioux, one of the seven tribes of the Lakota nation.
After starring in the Oscar-winning film, according to prosecutors, Chasing Horse began propping himself up as a self-proclaimed Lakota medicine man while traveling around North America to perform healing ceremonies.
Prosecutors said his position in the community granted him access to vulnerable women and girls for decades until his arrest last January near Las Vegas. He has been jailed ever since.
Chasing Horse's arrest reverberated around Indian Country. Law enforcement in the U.S. and Canada quickly followed up with more criminal charges, saying that his arrest helped corroborate long-standing allegations against him, including on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation in Montana where tribal leaders had banished Chasing Horse in 2015 amid allegations of human trafficking.
Authorities in Alberta, Canada, have acknowledged that their case is largely symbolic. Chasing Horse — who faces decades in a Nevada prison if convicted — might not ever return to Canada.
“At the end of the day,” Sgt. Nancy Farmer of the Tsuut’ina Nation Police Service has said, “it is important for us to have these warrants in the system so our victims know they’ve been heard. It’s extremely important that we continue to support them that way.”
In Las Vegas, Chasing Horse had pleaded not guilty to the original charges. His new lawyer didn't immediately respond to an email seeking comment, and his former public defender, Kristy Holston, said she had no comment on the new indictment.
The latest indictment also accuses Chasing Horse of filming himself having sex with one of his accusers when she was younger than 14. Prosecutors say the footage, taken in 2010 or 2011, was found on cellphones in a locked safe inside the North Las Vegas home that Chasing Horse is said to have shared with five wives, including the girl in the videos.
When the Nevada Supreme Court ordered the dismissal of Chasing Horse's initial indictment, the judges said they were not weighing in on his guilt or innocence, calling the allegations against him serious. But the court said that prosecutors improperly provided the grand jury with a definition of grooming without expert testimony, and faulted them for withholding from the grand jury inconsistent statements made by one of his accusers.
Chasing Horse's legal issues have been unfolding at the same time lawmakers and prosecutors around the U.S. are funneling more resources into cases involving Native women, including human trafficking and murders.
FILE - Nathan Chasing Horse sits in Las Vegas court, April 3, 2023. (AP Photo/Ty O'Neil, File)
