Malik Nabers has a new spot in the Giants’ locker room.

He’s right next to Russell Wilson, and given how Wilson likes to talk about intentionality, that doesn’t feel like much of a coincidence.

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tRY IT NOW If the Giants are going to do anything of note this year, the Wilson-to-Nabers connection will be central to why, and both players are operating with full awareness of that. Nabers flew to San Diego this offseason to work with Wilson and during the spring the two worked together after practices.

Now, they are picking each others’ brains in the locker room, working to build a connection that needs to show itself on the field starting a week from Sunday at Washington.