Should I start Malik Nabers or Evan Engram in Week 9?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Malik Nabers, and the board ranks him 150th overall on the rest of his evidence.

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

Live drafts hold no current pick on Evan Engram, and the board ranks him 152nd 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.

Evan Engram's market-based projection is 4.5 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 115th highest figure of the 219 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 so far

Through Week 7, Malik Nabers has been on the field for 76 percent of NYG snaps, drawn 30 percent of the targets and had 15 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 15 of the offence's 61 third down targets, had 2 of its 13 chances inside the five and seen 12 of its 32 two minute targets.

His 70 targets have averaged 11.6 air yards.

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.

In Week 7 against HOU he caught 7 of 9 targets for 111 yards and did not score.

Through Week 8, Evan Engram has been on the field for 54 percent of DEN snaps, drawn 11 percent of the targets and had 3 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 9 of the offence's 66 third down targets, had 0 of its 26 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 26 two minute targets.

His 25 targets have averaged 5.1 air yards.

In Week 6 against SEA he caught 2 of 2 targets for 13 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against ARI he caught 1 of 3 targets for 2 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against KC he caught 0 of 3 targets for 0 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 Evan Engram played 16 games and scored 102.8 PPR points, 6.4 a game, finishing TE29.

He caught 50 of 76 targets for 461 yards and 1 touchdown, with 10 red zone targets.

That came to 4.8 targets a game, a 66 percent catch rate and 9.2 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 42 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Evan Engram was available for 12 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Malik Nabers scored 14.3 PPR points a game and Evan Engram 6.4, 7.9 a game between them.

Malik Nabers finished WR101 and Evan Engram TE29, which are two different ladders.

Malik Nabers is a wide receiver and Evan Engram a tight end, 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 Evan Engram in Week 10, 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.