WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W.Va. — On Day 1, Malik Nabers was out there.

Give the Giants their first victory of training camp, 2026.

The star wide receiver was out there, and everyone noticed.

“I mean it’s Leek,’’ quarterback Jaxson Dart said Wednesday. “That’s it. Every time he’s on the field everybody knows where he’s at.’’

Where Nabers was at provided a jolt of positivity for an offense, a team and fan base breathlessly waiting for him to return to the form he put on display as a rookie in 2024, a showing that justified his lofty standing as the No. 6 overall pick in the NFL Draft that year. He played in only four games last season before going down and out with a torn right anterior cruciate ligament, a significant injury made more serious with the addition of a partially torn right lateral meniscus.

It is too soon to declare Nabers fully back because he is not. Not yet, anyway.

He was able to avoid the physically unable to perform list heading into training camp and that was encouraging. On the first day of practice at The Greenbrier, Nabers was out there with his teammates during the individual receiver drills and also worked with the offense during “on air’’ periods, when no players on defense were on the field.

He took his steps, made his cuts, planted his foot in the ground to change directions and made his catches. Then he went inside while the rest of the team proceeded with the more strenuous parts of practice.

“It was great,’’ head coach John Harbaugh said. “You saw him. He’s got a process going. I thought he looked good.’’

For now, looking good will suffice.

General manager Joe Schoen said Nabers reported earlier than the majority of the team and that he was able to run and cut in the days leading up to camp. There will be no rushing the process. If Nabers feels good, physical goals will be added each day. If he experiences a slight setback, the workload will ease off.

“The medical staff has a really good plan for him,’’ Schoen said. “And we’re going to, as I always say, listen to the patients. So, we’re going to see how he reacts. As long as everything goes as planned … hopefully he’ll be ready and we’ll see how it plays out. But no predictions right now, just because we have a long way to go, still a lot of camp.’’

The deadline for Nabers to be all systems go is Sept. 13, the regular-season opener against the Cowboys. It is not August yet. Time appears to be on the Giants’ side with this one.

There are options for the Giants to consider at the position, but there is only one Malik Nabers.

They signed Darnell Mooney and Calvin Austin III early in free agency and three more veterans — Odell Beckham Jr., JuJu Smith-Schuster and Braxton Berrios — later. They traded up in the draft to get Malachi Fields. Darius Slayton returns for year No. 8. Reliable Isaiah Hodgins is back. There will be plenty of competition for the available six spots on the roster.

There is no competition for who the leader of the pack needs to be, as far as star power. It needs to be Nabers.

“He definitely has a presence about him,’’ Dart said. “There’s an aura that he has on the field that is exhilarating, it makes me happy, it makes everybody happy just to see him out there. Just for him, he’s had a lot of positives so we’re just going to continue to get him in slowly. He’s doing a great job with how he’s attacking his recovery. I got all the confidence in the world in him.

“He brings a completely different element to an offense.’’

Nabers caught 109 passes for 1,204 yards as a rookie but was lost in Week 4 last season, going down and out in Dart’s first NFL start. Dart was robbed of his most dynamic weapon for his next 11 starts.

“I had a quarter and one week, really, of reps with him last year,’’ Dart said. “So any time we’re able to just have communication with each other, have dialogue, watch tape, which we’ve done a lot. Trying to get those reps before he’s 100 percent, I think that will help mold our relationship into what we want it to be. He’s obsessed with this game and he’s attacking it the right way.’’

Outside linebacker Brian Burns called Nabers “dynamic’’ and added he will caution the just-turned 23-year-old to make sure he is not rushing back into the action. Nabers needed a second procedure in the spring, to clean up some scar tissue, and that set him back a bit.

“I mean, maybe he’ll get way ahead, maybe he won’t, whatever,’’ Harbaugh said. “You can’t really put a timetable on it exactly, I don’t think. I think you just see where it goes because we want him to be at his best. So, when he’s ready to be at his best, he’ll be at his best.’’