LSU wide receiver Malik Nabers is expected to be selected in the first round of the NFL Draft. However, a new report that the 20-year-old is “high maintenance” could cause some teams to hesitate.
He doesn’t care.
Nabers, who led college football in receiving touchdowns last season, is widely projected to be one of the first 10 players to hear his name called later this month. It depends on how things shake out with the quarterbacks out of the gate.
Regardless of what plays out, Nabers is unlikely to slip out of the first round unless a recent report about his character leads teams to pass. There is zero credibility to it.
Tony Pauline of Sportskeeda was the one who started all of this chatter. He claimed that Nabers is “known as a high-maintenance prospect who may struggle in a big city” and said that there are “off-the-field questions.” (I did not who Pauline was until I started to write this article.)
There is NO telling where the self-proclaimed “NFL Draft analyst” got his information. He is literally the only one to report it, ever. Everybody out of Baton Rouge has had nothing but great things to say about Nabers as a player and as a person. These “off-the-field questions” did not exist prior to his “report.”
Jordan Schultz of Bleacher Report eviscerated Pauline for spreading fake news.
There is so much wrong with this “report,” I don’t even know where to start. To attack a young person’s character with anonymous quotes less than three weeks before the NFL Draft is flat-out wrong. Malik Nabers deserves better.
This stuff happens every year during draft season, and largely, most of it is false and is being spread to get a player to drop. Stop with this.
— @Schultz_Report on X
Malik Nabers is not worried about what Pauline has to say about him. In his eyes, it is irrelevant. As it should be.
The future NFL pass-catcher addressed the rumors head-on while on Instagram Live with his quarterback, Jayden Daniels. Nabers believes that he is simply the target of this year’s pre-Draft slander and called it “cap.”
The good news is that nobody is taking Pauline seriously. There has been nothing to indicate that Nabers’ stock has dropped!