{"id":248924,"date":"2025-09-29T11:15:47","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T15:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/?p=248924"},"modified":"2025-09-29T11:15:47","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T15:15:47","slug":"breaking-tests-confirm-malik-nabers-tears-acl-out-for-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2025\/09\/29\/breaking-tests-confirm-malik-nabers-tears-acl-out-for-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking: Tests Confirm Malik Nabers Tears ACL, Out For Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York Giants superstar Malik Nabers appeared to have torn his ACL during the team&#8217;s upset win over the Los Angeles Chargers, and <a  href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/schultz_report\/status\/1972681422310609023?s=46\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recent tests confirmed the worst<\/a>. According to reports across the league, the second-year wide receiver will miss the remainder of the season.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_248925\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-248925\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-248925\" src=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/09\/Malik-Nabers-ACL-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Malik Nabers ACL\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/09\/Malik-Nabers-ACL-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/09\/Malik-Nabers-ACL-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/09\/Malik-Nabers-ACL-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/09\/Malik-Nabers-ACL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/09\/Malik-Nabers-ACL-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/09\/Malik-Nabers-ACL-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/09\/Malik-Nabers-ACL.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-248925\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sep 28, 2025; East Rutherford, New Jersey, USA; Los Angeles Chargers cornerback Cam Hart (20) breaks up a pass intended for New York Giants wide receiver Malik Nabers (1) during the second quarter at MetLife Stadium. Nabers was carted off the field with an injury after the play. Mandatory Credit: Brad Penner-Imagn Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>BREAKING: Malik Nabers Tears ACL, Star WR Out For Season<\/h2>\n<p>Malik Nabers tore his ACL early in the team&#8217;s 21-18 win over the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/category\/nfl-teams\/chargers\/\" target=\"_self\">Los Angeles Chargers<\/a>. Playing alongside <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2025\/05\/19\/jaxson-dart-new-york-giants-quarterback-dynasty-outlook\/\" target=\"_self\">rookie Jaxson Dart<\/a>, the quarterback threw a deep shot downfield for his top wide receiver. Nabers went up for it but landed awkwardly and immediately collapsed on the ground in pain. The cart took him off the field, and reports quickly came in saying that the Giants believed he tore his ACL. Today&#8217;s reports confirmed that original assessment. Nabers will finish his second season with 18 receptions for 271 yards and two touchdowns.<\/p>\n<p>Nabers originally entered the NFL as a first-round pick in the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/category\/nfl-draft\/\" target=\"_self\">2024 NFL Draft<\/a>. Selected by the New York Giants, the LSU product immediately became one of the league&#8217;s most dangerous all-around threats. Despite playing with a poor quarterback room, the rookie finished his inaugural campaign with 109 receptions for 1,204 yards and seven touchdowns on 170 targets while earning a spot on the Pro Bowl roster.<\/p>\n<p>With Nabers sidelined, Dart will spend the rest of his rookie season throwing to a wide receiver room led by Wan&#8217;Dale Robinson and Darius Slayton. While these two are solid depth players, don&#8217;t be surprised if the team adds another wide receiver via trade or free agency in the coming days.<\/p>\n<p><em>Main Photo: Brad Penner &#8211; Imagn Images<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tests revealed that superstar Malik Nabers officially tore his ACL in Sunday&#8217;s win over the Los Angeles Chargers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2376,"featured_media":248926,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[36,20,6431],"tags":[32135,246],"class_list":["post-248924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nfl-news","category-giants","category-nfl-teams","tag-malik-nabers","tag-nfl-news"],"modified_by":"David Latham, Managing Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2376"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248924"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":248943,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248924\/revisions\/248943"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}