Malik Nabers has a new spot in the Giants’ locker room.

He’s right next to Russell Wilson, and given how Wilson likes to talk about intentionality, that doesn’t feel like much of a coincidence.

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If the Giants are going to do anything of note this year, the Wilson-to-Nabers connection will be central to why, and both players are operating with full awareness of that. Nabers flew to San Diego this offseason to work with Wilson and during the spring the two worked together after practices.

Now, they are picking each others’ brains in the locker room, working to build a connection that needs to show itself on the field starting a week from Sunday at Washington.

“We feel great,” Wilson said after Wednesday’s practice. “I think the best part about it is Malik’s been a great worker this whole time. Ever since coming down to San Diego and all the time we got to spend together and his work ethic there, OTAs, and really just the mentality, even though he wasn’t working physically as much at that point. He was in every meeting, every rep, every discussion with really great thoughts.”

Given Wilson’s pedigree, it’s a little odd that the last receiver to go for 1,000 yards with him as the quarterback was Tyler Lockett in 2021.

Receivers have hit that mark just six times with Wilson as their quarterback, with Lockett doing so three times, Doug Baldwin twice and DK Metcalf once.

Nabers, as a rookie, put up 1,204 yards on 109 catches last season.

That’s more yardage than any receiver has put up with Wilson throwing them the ball except Metcalf in 2020. It’s hard to imagine Nabers won’t put up big numbers again.

“I think he’s going to have a great year,” Wilson said. “I think the best part about him is, obviously he’s a threat down the field, but he’s also a threat anytime he touches the ball, whether it’s in the short game, mid-range game, all the different things he can do.”

“When your quarterback is able to pick apart a defense as good as Russ is, know what’s going on, know where he wants to go with the ball, it makes the receiver’s job a whole lot easier,” Nabers said. “Rather than me hearing his thoughts, already knowing what he’s thinking, where to be, body language and stuff like that. It’s been good.”

This is the benefit of Wilson’s experience coming to the fore.

Stirring as it was to see Jaxson Dart put together a strong training camp and preseason, 13 seasons in the NFL is not something Dart is capable of replicating as a rookie.

“He goes back to Seattle and talks about a couple plays that he has run and he was throwing a lot of touchdowns,” Nabers said. “So I’m going to do whatever he tells me to do if it’s going to result in a touchdown. So I’m doing whatever he tells me.”

Dart and Tommy DeVito were as equally big stories as Wilson during camp. But it is the regular season now.

And the Giants, unless something drastic changes, are Wilson’s team — a fact reiterated by general manager Joe Schoen on Wednesday.

“If I can take anything, any lessons from him, just look at all the things he’s accomplished and doing those right things, I think it’s growing on me,” Nabers said. “I hope it grows on me just to do the right things. Being around him is that early process that I’m taking as a young man, just trying to pick up little pieces to help me grow as a person and as a man.”