Should I start Malik Nabers or Aaron Rodgers in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Malik Nabers, and the board ranks him 113th overall on the rest of his evidence.

By format he goes standard: ADP 12; 2QB: ADP 27.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Aaron Rodgers, and the board ranks him 115th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Malik Nabers is 2.6 PPR points a game off 1 market across 8 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a wide receiver's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Aaron Rodgers's market-based projection is 15.4 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 29th highest figure of the 194 players with a market-based projection.

Malik Nabers's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season through Week 6

Through Week 6, Malik Nabers has been on the field for 77 percent of NYG snaps, drawn 30 percent of the targets and had 17 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 12 of the offence's 55 third down targets, had 2 of its 10 chances inside the five and seen 9 of its 27 two minute targets.

His 61 targets have averaged 11.3 air yards.

In Week 4 against ARI he caught 6 of 7 targets for 112 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 5 against WAS he caught 11 of 20 targets for 121 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 6 against NO he caught 12 of 15 targets for 165 yards and did not score.

Through Week 6, Aaron Rodgers has been on the field for 99 percent of PIT snaps, dropped back 252 times and thrown 7.7 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 42 of 252 dropbacks and scrambled 3 times.

In Week 4 against CLE he completed 22 of 40 passes for 299 yards and threw 3 touchdowns and 2 interceptions.

In Week 5 against IND he completed 22 of 31 passes for 235 yards, threw 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 1 time for 6 yards.

In Week 6 against TB he completed 33 of 47 passes for 253 yards and threw 2 touchdowns and 1 interception.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Malik Nabers played 4 games and scored 57.1 PPR points, 14.3 a game, finishing WR101.

He caught 18 of 35 targets for 271 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 3 red zone targets.

That came to 8.8 targets a game, a 51 percent catch rate and 15.1 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 78 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Aaron Rodgers played 16 games and scored 234.1 PPR points, 14.6 a game, finishing QB18.

He threw for 3322 yards on 498 attempts with 24 touchdowns and 7 interceptions, and ran for 61 yards and 1 touchdown.

That came to 31.1 attempts a game at 6.7 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 95 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Aaron Rodgers was available for 12 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Aaron Rodgers scored 14.6 PPR points a game and Malik Nabers 14.3, 0.4 a game between them.

Malik Nabers finished WR101 and Aaron Rodgers QB18, which are two different ladders.

Malik Nabers is a wide receiver and Aaron Rodgers a quarterback, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Malik Nabers is off in Week 8 and Aaron Rodgers in Week 9, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

Malik Nabers has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.