Giants Malik Nabers open to sharing targets with top free agent Tee Higgins

NEW ORLEANS — Sorry, Giants fans, but Malik Nabers was not trying to recruit free agent Tee Higgins to New York during their recent three-way call with mutual friend Isaiah Simmons. But don’t rule it out for the future, especially because Higgins and Simmons remain tight as former Clemson teammates and Simmons was Nabers’ closest friend on the Giants during the rookie’s electric debut. “I mean, I could,” Nabers laughed to The Post, “but I don’t know how persuasive I would be.” Higgins is the top receiver set to hit the market — possibly commanding $30 million per season — and easily could be most teams’ No.1 option if he breaks from pairing with Ja’Marr Chase on the Bengals. Nabers dominates the ball for the Giants — only Chase (175) had more targets in the NFL than Nabers (170) — but is open to the idea of sharing targets with another 100-catch caliber receiver on the outside and forming his own dynamic duo like Chase-Higgins, the Dolphins’ Tyreek Hill and Jaylen Waddle and the Eagles’ A.J.

Brown and DeVonta Smith. Darius Slayton is unlikely to return as a free agent — so is the linebacker Simmons, for what it’s worth — which puts the Giants in the receiver market.Whether they see slot receiver Wan’Dale Robinson (140 targets) as their No.

2 or No.3 will be revealed through their moves. “I would love to have another guy on the other side, specifically a veteran guy I can learn from,” Nabers said.

“Somebody that can take all the people looking at me.It would be amazing to try to get somebody of that level to come play with us, especially with Wan’Dale, too.” Nabers was on Super Bowl 2025 radio row Thursday in his home state of Louisiana, promoting Popeyes as “the official wing of football” and its new gameday bundle for $24.99.

It left Nabers hungry to get to the big game himself, even though that feels a long way off for the Giants (3-14). “It would’ve been an honor to play in this one, being th...