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Giants wide receiver Hakeem Nicks (No. 88) tries to get ready to play Sunday against the 49ers.
Giants wideout Hakeem Nicks maintained that he felt no pain in his left knee or right foot during practice on Friday and stayed optimistic about his chances of returning to game action Sunday after sitting the last three weeks.
“I think I’ve got a pretty good shot,” Nicks said.
Tom Coughlin listed Nicks as “questionable” on the official injury report and remained non-committal on the receiver’s availability for Sunday when the Giants (3-2) play the 49ers (4-1) in a rematch of January’s NFL Championship Game.
Nicks is expected to check with the team’s training staff again Saturday morning to gauge his recovery from the workout and then fly cross-country with the team to San Francisco.
“He’d be a huge asset to our team,” Coughlin said. “But we’ll have to wait and see.”
COREY STORY
Cornerback Corey Webster sat out practice Friday and pedaled on a stationery bike, with safety Kenny Phillips joining him off to the side as the team prepared for Sunday’s matchup.
Webster, who has played through a broken right hand, also has a hamstring problem, but Coughlin downplayed the significance. Webster was listed as questionable on the official injury report. Coughlin considered Webster not practicing a “precaution.”
The Giants’ secondary has been forced to adapt to injuries several times this season. Phillips will not play Sunday because of a right knee injury, and rookie cornerback Jayron Hosley has battled his own hamstring injury.
ROCKY KO’D
Defensive tackle Rocky Bernard (quadriceps) will not play Sunday.
Coughlin said Bernard was dealing with a “significant injury that just takes time.
“He’s trying, he’s working,” Coughlin said. “But he’s not to the point where he can stop and start and all that business. It takes time.”
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Tom Coughlin with children from Darien youth football - Jack Bogdan # 33, Cooper Hancock # 10, (middle kid) Connor Day, Brian Cicero 42, and A.J. Arledge 61, at the Tom Coughlin Jay Fund Champion for Children's gala Friday night at Cipriani.
TOM’S BIG NIGHT
Coughlin celebrated his charity’s eighth annual gala at Cipriani in Manhattan Friday night.
The Giants are undefeated in games played after the gala each year.
The Jay Fund helps raise money that goes to families with children battling cancer.
Coughlin named the charity after Jay McGillis, his former player at Boston College who died from leukemia.
“Hopefully Jay’s watching over us.” Coughlin said.
AVOIDING HIT
RB Andre Brown, who is still recovering from a concussion, was not fined for his in-game tweet last Sunday — a violation of the NFL’s social media policy.
Brown also previously had a suspension for using Adderall overturned earlier this season.
JACOBS GETTING CLOSE
Niners tailback Brandon Jacobs is questionable to play on Sunday, although Niners coach Jim Harbaugh said that Jacobs “had a good week of practice” and is “working hard.” Jacobs has yet to be active for the Niners this season as he works his way back from a preseason knee injury.
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