Should I start Cole Kmet or Malik Nabers in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Cole Kmet, and the board ranks him 93rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Malik Nabers, and the board ranks him 94th overall on the rest of his evidence.

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

The market-based projections

Cole Kmet's market-based projection is 3.3 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 77th highest figure of the 182 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Malik Nabers is 2.7 PPR points a game off 1 market across 6 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.

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, Cole Kmet has been on the field for 63 percent of CHI snaps, drawn 6 percent of the targets and had 1 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 3 of the offence's 51 third down targets, had 0 of its 31 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 32 two minute targets.

His 11 targets have averaged 6.6 air yards.

In Week 4 against NYJ he caught 2 of 2 targets for 13 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against GB he caught 1 of 2 targets for 8 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against ATL he caught 2 of 2 targets for 3 yards and did not score.

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.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Cole Kmet played 16 games and scored 78.7 PPR points, 4.9 a game, finishing TE36.

He caught 30 of 48 targets for 347 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 6 red zone targets.

That came to 3.0 targets a game, a 63 percent catch rate and 11.6 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 69 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

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.

Cole Kmet was available for 12 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Malik Nabers scored 14.3 PPR points a game and Cole Kmet 4.9, 9.4 a game between them.

Cole Kmet finished TE36 and Malik Nabers WR101, which are two different ladders.

Cole Kmet is a tight end and Malik Nabers a wide receiver, 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. No bye is listed for Cole Kmet.

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.