Malik Nabers or Bhayshul Tuten: who should I start in Week 6?

The market-based projections

Malik Nabers's market-based projection is 15.5 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 37th highest figure of the 157 players with a market-based projection.

Bhayshul Tuten's market-based projection is 12.1 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 61st highest figure of the 157 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Malik Nabers: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 27th overall on the rest of his evidence.

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

Drafters have formed no consensus on Bhayshul Tuten: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 26th overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season through Week 5

Through Week 5, Malik Nabers has been on the field for 75 percent of NYG snaps, drawn 28 percent of the targets and had 15 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 11 of the offence's 49 third down targets, had 1 of its 8 chances inside the five and seen 8 of its 24 two minute targets.

His 46 targets have averaged 11.8 air yards.

In Week 3 against TEN he caught 5 of 6 targets for 26 yards and did not score.

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.

Through Week 5, Bhayshul Tuten has been on the field for 56 percent of JAX snaps, taken 61 percent of the carries, drawn 7 percent of the targets and had 30 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 35 third down targets, had 4 of its 11 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 18 two minute targets.

His 10 targets have come 3.0 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 3 against NE he carried 15 times for 73 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 17 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 4 against CIN he carried 17 times for 73 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 18 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against PHI he carried 22 times for 72 yards, caught 2 of 3 targets for 24 yards and did not score.

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 Bhayshul Tuten played 15 games and scored 88.6 PPR points, 5.9 a game, finishing RB53.

He carried 83 times for 307 yards and 5 touchdowns, and caught 10 of 14 targets for 79 more yards.

That came to 5-6 carries a game at 3.7 yards a carry and 0.7 catches a game.

He was on the field for 21 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Bhayshul Tuten was available for 11 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Malik Nabers scored 14.3 PPR points a game and Bhayshul Tuten 5.9, 8.4 a game between them.

Malik Nabers finished WR101 and Bhayshul Tuten RB53, which are two different ladders.

Malik Nabers is a wide receiver and Bhayshul Tuten a running back, 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 Bhayshul Tuten in Week 7, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

3.4 points a game is the entire case. The market restates it every week, and a line that moves moves the order with it.

The draft market is the half that is missing: when the consensus sample holds these two again it can order them differently from the projection, and this page will follow the sample rather than the market-based projection when it does.