{"id":754805,"date":"2026-04-26T17:24:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T17:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/754805\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T17:24:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T17:24:15","slug":"john-harbaugh-responds-to-malik-nabers-questioning-giants-draft-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/754805\/","title":{"rendered":"John Harbaugh responds to Malik Nabers questioning Giants&#8217; draft decision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Malik Nabers on a Bleacher Report simulcast Thursday night with Packers linebacker Micah Parsons <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/23\/sports\/malik-nabers-questions-giants-first-round-decisions-in-2026-nfl-draft\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">questioned the Giants<\/a> as he saw his team <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/23\/sports\/giants-surprisingly-go-arvell-reese-with-no-5-pick-of-2026-nfl-draft\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">select Arvell Reese with the No. 5 pick<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Nabers did not understand why his team took another edge rusher, unaware that the Giants will use Reese as a weakside linebacker.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLove the player, don\u2019t get me wrong. But where do you play?\u201d Nabers said. \u201cHe is going to want to be on the outside to rush but we just drafted somebody [Abdul Carter] last year to do that same position.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>John Harbaugh made sure Friday morning to speak to Nabers about those comments, calling it a \u201cgreat conversion\u2019\u2019 with the wide receiver who is returning from ACL surgery.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI appreciate kinda where he was coming from,\u201d Harbaugh said. \u201cYou\u2019re in a podcast talking ball and he\u2019s like \u2018How are they gonna use the guy? Where is he gonna play?\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI showed him how we\u2019re gonna use him. He seemed fired up about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39202938\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/l-head-coach-john-harbaugh-126333276.jpg\" alt=\"From left: Giants owner John Mara, head coach John Harbaugh, No. 5 overall pick Arvell Reese and GM Joe Schoen at the team facility for Reese's introduction on April 24, 2026.\" class=\"wp-image-39202938\"  \/>From left: Giants owner John Mara, head coach John Harbaugh, No. 5 overall pick Arvell Reese and GM Joe Schoen at the team facility for Reese\u2019s introduction on April 24, 2026. Corey Sipkin for the NY POST<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.45248227;display:block\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39202940\" width=\"857\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/new-york-giants-wide-receiver-118331209.jpg\" alt=\"Malik Nabers speaking to the media after the end of the Giants' season on Jan. 5, 2026.\" class=\"wp-image-39202940\"  \/>Malik Nabers speaking to the media after the end of the Giants\u2019 season on Jan. 5, 2026. Charles Wenzelberg \/ New York Post<\/p>\n<p>Harbaugh did not sound upset with Nabers expressing his opinion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t get too worried about stuff, as long as a person\u2019s heart is in the right place, as long as a person really cares and really wants what\u2019s best for everybody,\u201d Harbaugh said. \u201cSay what you think, put it out there.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Harbaugh was pleased that Nabers was the first player to meet Reese and his family when they arrived at the team facility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Malik Nabers on a Bleacher Report simulcast Thursday night with Packers linebacker Micah Parsons questioned the Giants as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":754806,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[10],"tags":[218617,145208,58346,4716,1232,4261,237483,62,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-754805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-arvell-reese","tag-john-harbaugh","tag-malik-nabers","tag-new-york-giants","tag-nfl","tag-nfl-draft","tag-nfl-draft-2026","tag-sports","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116472176431251310","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=754805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/754806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=754805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=754805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=754805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}