Giants already treating Malik Nabers like top receiver he plans to be

There is often a dance to be done with upper echelon wide receivers.

They do not all have to be divas, but there is a need for them to believe they are so good, so skilled, that they cannot be stopped. That no defense, no single cornerback, can deal with them.

“How dare they challenge me with their primitive skills’’ is the way Mike Tyson put it in his prime, and even if we leave out the last part of that haunting quote — “they’re just as good as dead’’ — the message remains clear.

Malik Nabers is not there just yet, and there is every reason to project that he one day will be. There is also every reason to assume the Giants need him to be more than he was as a rookie, when he was pretty darn good.