Nicks, who's tied for second in the NFC with nine touchdown catches, fourth with 62 receptions and fifth with 800 yards, and Smith, who set a franchise record with 107 catches in 2009 along with 1,220 yards and seven touchdowns, likely won't play again Sunday against Washington either although the latter hasn't totally closed the door.
"It felt good," Smith said after participating in individual drills on Wednesday. "It feels like my motion's there. It's just like a mental thing, a confidence thing now. They say that it's just going to be a little bit of discomfort, but you've got to go out there and feel it out for yourself."
Smith stepped up his workload today but apparently not enough that he had to really stretch for a ball.
Nicks still isn't sure how he was hurt in Week 10 at Philadelphia and he wasn't expecting the subsequent MRI to reveal significant damage.
"It was just something that I started noticing my leg was getting a little tight," Nicks said more than a week after having surgery to repair compartment syndrome in his right leg. "[The doctors] said, 'You've got to have immediate surgery.' [Now it's about] just keeping the wound clean, make sure that's healed up."
While Nicks expects to miss next week's game at Minnesota as well. Smith, who has been sidelined for three games with a torn pectoral muscle, plans to return at least in time to face the Vikings. Smith has 47 catches, 517 yards and three touchdowns in eight games this year.
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