Malik Nabers questions Giants’ decision to draft Arvell Reese over Caleb Downs

Malik Nabers | Getty Images Malik Nabers questioned the New York Giants passing on now Dallas Cowboys safety Caleb Downs twice on Thursday night in Round 1 of the 2016 NFL Draft. “I would rather get him then play against him…I’m just saying that Downs was there twice,” Nabers said on Bleacher Report’s live stream with Micah Parsons. “The reason why I said Caleb Downs…is because we just traded [Dexter Lawerence], you need you need interior D line— I understand getting outside backer he wants to rush OK—but when you eliminate something from there you, have to put something in the back end to be secure.

” The Giants wide receiver noted the time he played against Downs in college, the Alabama freshman was calling out the routes that the wide receivers were going to run before the play was snapped. “We could have got the playmaker, we need another playmaker in the deep zone,” said Nabers. “We got [Javon] Holland don’t get me wrong but Downs plays inside, we could have him move down low, to blitz.

“We could put him out to cover we go against somebody who has a fast running back… When we need somebody to get [Washington Commanders quarterback Jayden Daniels]. ” Nabers wondered aloud why the Giants would draft Reese when they selected Abdul Carter a year ago. “Love the player, don’t get me wrong,” Nabers said.

“But [where is he going to] play? He is going to want to be on the outside to rush but we just drafted somebody last year to do that same position. ” The wide receiver out of LSU noted that the Giants just paid right tackle Jermaine Eluemunor and that will force Francis Mauigoa to play a different position then he did in college.