Giants rookie receiver sensation Malik Nabers catches up with Post columnist Steve Serby for some kickoff weekend Q&A.
Q: You’re wearing No. 1, playing for the New York Giants. You’ve met the family of former Giant Ray Flaherty, whose No. 1 was the NFL’s first retired jersey and will be at the game.
A: It’s a big deal, because it’s the first retired jersey, but I don’t really think like that. … I don’t want to make it to be in my mind like I’m telling myself, “I go to do this, I got to do this,” because this is the kind of number that I’m wearing, “I got to do that.” Don’t get me wrong, it is a big thing, but it’s not a big thing in my mind, because I don’t want to overset my mind on something that I feel that if I put too much pressure into it, I’m not going to perform as well. When you overdo yourself on the field and you got to feel like you want to do this, you want to do that, you start to lose your focus on what you actually can do. So I want to make sure my mind is at the stable position. But to be No. 1 at the New York Giants, I do feel some kind of way in my heart that I was the chosen one, I was born to do this,…
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