{"id":350730,"date":"2026-09-19T00:40:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T00:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/350730\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T00:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T00:40:10","slug":"ny-giants-at-la-rams-aaron-donald-will-play-puka-nacua-doesnt-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/350730\/","title":{"rendered":"NY Giants at LA Rams: Aaron Donald will play, Puka Nacua doesn\u2019t practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The New York Giants got a mixed bag of news with respect to their opponents on Monday Night Football.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Future Hall Of Fame defensive tackle Aaron Donald <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AdamSchefter\/status\/2101074981052449257\" rel=\"nofollow\">told reporters on Friday<\/a> that he plans to play Monday night. At the same time, it was reported that receivers Puka Nacua and Jordan Whittington <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PLeonardNYDN\/status\/2101077257775095855?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">didn\u2019t practice<\/a> on Friday. That comes as a bit of good news for the Giants.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">There has been some question as to how much Donald will be able to contribute in his first game back after two years of retirement. It\u2019s a valid question, however the Giants should prepare for Donald at his best.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Donald has always been an athletic freak as well as incredibly skilled. While he declined in the years before retiring, his decline was from \u201cthe best to ever do it\u201d to merely \u201cthe best doing it right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">On the flip side, Nacua and Whittington popping up on the injury report is a potential boon for the Giants.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Nacua is one of the best receivers in the NFL, while Whittington is a very capable returner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Nacua being limited, or potentially out, would be a boon with starting CB Deonte dealing with calf tightness and Paulson Adebo being placed on injured reserve.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Giants should prepare as though all the Rams\u2019 players will be available and at full strength. However a win is significantly more likely if they catch a break or two on the injury front.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York Giants got a mixed bag of news with respect to their opponents on Monday Night&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350731,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,27916,11,10],"class_list":["post-350730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-giants-discussion","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}