Rookies Malik Nabers and Tyrone Tracy Jr. are making history

Rookies Malik Nabers and Tyrone Tracy Jr. are making history

*In his fourth start for the Giants, quarterback Drew Lock completed 17 of 23 passes for 309 yards, four touchdowns, no interceptions and a career-high passer rating of 155.3. Lock also scored on a 5-yard run. The four touchdown passes – two to Malik Nabers and one each to Wan’Dale Robinson and Darius Slayton – marked the highlight of his career, which came on December 13, 2020 for Denver at Carolina. At this point he also achieved his best rating to date, 149.5.

*Lock’s 155.3 rating was the highest by a Giants quarterback with at least 15 attempts since Nov. 18, 2018, when Eli Manning had a 155.8 rating in a 38-35 win over Tampa Bay. Manning completed 17 of 18 passes in this game.

*In the first half, Lock completed seven of eight passes for 153 yards and three touchdowns for a perfect 158.3 rating – the Giants’ first quarterback in a first half since Manning on October 11, 2009 against the Raiders.

*Lock is the first Giants quarterback with four touchdown passes since Daniel Jones threw four passes at Washington on December 22, 2019. The last Giants quarterback to score four points and run for a touchdown was Manning on September 25, 2014, also with Washington. The previous NFL quarterback to achieve the four-on-one feat was Dallas’ Dak Prescott on November 12, 2023 against… the Giants.

*Lock recorded the first 300-yard passing game by a Giants quarterback since December 31, 2023, when Tyrod Taylor threw for 319 yards against the Rams. Indianapolis quarterback Joe Flacco threw for 330 yards on Sunday. It was the Giants’ first game in which both starting quarterbacks threw for more than 300 yards since the 1-point loss to Los Angeles a year ago, when Matthew Stafford passed for 317 yards.

*Nabers led the Giants with seven receptions and a career-high 171 yards, including his touchdowns of 31 and 59 yards. He increased his season total to 104 receptions, the second-highest total in Giants history. Nabers passed Odell Beckham, Jr., who caught 101 passes in 2016. He trails only Steve Smith, who had 107 passes in 2009.

*Nabers is four shy of the new NFL rookie record of 108 catches set by Las Vegas tight end Brock Bowers, who also had seven catches early Sunday afternoon in the Raiders’ win at New Orleans.

*Nabers is tied with Miami’s Jaylen Waddle (104 catches in 2021) for the third-highest total rookie receptions in history, behind Bowers and the Rams’ Puka Nacua, who had 105 catches for the Rams last season. Bowers has played in all 16 games this season while Nabers has played 14. Nabers can tie the rookie record against the Eagles, but will start the day four catches behind Bowers.

*Bowers is second and Nabers third in the league in receptions this season, behind Cincinnati’s Ja’Marr Chase (117). Detroit’s Amon-Ra St. Brown has 101 catches and plays in San Francisco tomorrow night.

*Nabers’ 59-yard touchdown was his career touchdown, easily surpassing his 39-yard touchdown against Dallas on September 26.

*Nabers’ 171 receiving yards were the highest total by a Giants player since Kadarius Toney set the franchise rookie record with 189 yards on October 10, 2021 in Dallas.

*Nabers increased his season mileage to 1,140, ​​i.e. 26Th 1,000-yard season in Giants history and the first since Beckham had 1,052 on 77 catches in 2018. Nabers has the highest total receiving yards by a Giants player since Beckham retired with 1,367 yards in 2016.

*Nabers’ two touchdowns increased his season total to six, tying fellow rookie Tyrone Tracy for the team lead. Tracy has five rushing and one receiving touchdowns. Nabers is the first Giants player with six touchdown receptions since Beckham in 2018, and the first Giants rookie since tight end Evan Engram had six in 2017.

*Tracy rushed for 59 yards, increasing his season total to 780, placing him third on the franchise’s rookie list. Saquon Barkley ran for 1,307 yards in 2018 and Hall of Famer Tuffy Leemans ran for 830 yards in 1936. Tracy passed Ron Dyane, who ran for 770 yards in 2000.

*Nabers increased his scrimmage yardage to 1,142 this season, while Tracy, who also caught two passes for 14 yards, increased hers to 1,057. They are the third pair of rookies in NFL history – and the second since the merger in 1970 – to each have over 1,000 scrimmage yards. The 1960 Dallas Texans of the American Football League – who later became the Kansas City Chiefs – had Abner Haynes (1,451 yards) and Johnny Robinson (1,069), and the 2006 New Orleans Saints had Reggie Bush (1,307) and Marques Colston (1,038 ).

*Nabers and Tracy are the first two Giants rookies to each have more than 1,000 scrimmage yards. They rank third and fourth among all rookies in Giants history, trailing only Saquon Barkley (2,028 in 2018) and Beckham (1,340 in 2014). This is the first season since 2018 that two Giants players had more than 1,000 scrimmage yards (Beckham had 1,071).

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