Should I start Malik Nabers or Geno Smith in Week 10?
Updated Nov 10, 6:11 AM ET. Week 11 answers post Tuesday.
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Start Geno Smith: 100 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Malik Nabers's 84 percent of the snaps and 36 percent of the targets. No market projection is posted on either of them this week, so this is a usage call, and a lower confidence one than a call made on a projection. What follows is what each of them has done.
Should I drop Geno Smith for Malik Nabers?
Yes, on the rest of the season. Malik Nabers projects 111 market-implied PPR points from Week 10 through Week 17 (13.9 a game over 8 games), Geno Smith 105 (15.0 a game over 7 games).
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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.
WR3 · NYG · bye 8
2026 vs anytime td line 2-6
- Market-based projection
- 15.2 pts a game
QB9 · NYJ · bye 13
2026 vs pass yds line 6-3
- Market-based projection
- 14.2 pts a game Wk 9 price
- Overall rank
- 13
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The gap
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Draft data is not current for these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out. The call above comes from each player's usage.
Where the draft room stands
Live drafts hold no current pick on Malik Nabers, and the board ranks him 12th overall on the rest of his evidence.
By format he goes standard: ADP 12; 2QB: ADP 27.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Geno Smith, and the board ranks him 13th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
Malik Nabers's market-based projection is 15.2 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 7th highest figure of the 175 players with a market-based projection.
No season market is posted for Geno Smith, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
This season through Week 9
Through Week 9, Malik Nabers has been on the field for 76 percent of NYG snaps, drawn 30 percent of the targets and had 16 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 19 of the offence's 71 third down targets, had 2 of its 15 chances inside the five and seen 13 of its 33 two minute targets.
His 78 targets have averaged 11.4 air yards.
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.
In Week 9 against PHI he caught 5 of 8 targets for 43 yards and did not score.
Through Week 9, Geno Smith has been on the field for 100 percent of NYJ snaps, dropped back 310 times and thrown 7.5 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 53 of 310 dropbacks and scrambled 12 times.
In Week 7 against MIA he completed 23 of 30 passes for 287 yards, threw 3 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 1 time for 1 yards.
In Week 8 against LV he completed 20 of 32 passes for 290 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 1 time for 4 yards.
In Week 9 against KC he completed 18 of 32 passes for 165 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 1 time for 8 yards.
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 Geno Smith played 15 games and scored 190.9 PPR points, 12.7 a game, finishing QB23.
He threw for 3025 yards on 448 attempts with 19 touchdowns and 17 interceptions, and ran for 109 yards and 0 touchdowns.
That came to 29.9 attempts a game at 6.8 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 97 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Geno Smith was available for 11 games more.
Side by side
In 2025 Malik Nabers scored 14.3 PPR points a game and Geno Smith 12.7, 1.5 a game between them.
Malik Nabers finished WR101 and Geno Smith QB23, which are two different ladders.
Malik Nabers is a wide receiver and Geno Smith 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 Geno Smith in Week 13, so either can cover the other's bye.
What would change the answer
Geno Smith has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.
Drop or keep
Should I drop Geno Smith for Malik Nabers?
Yes, on the rest of the season. Malik Nabers projects 111 market-implied PPR points from Week 10 through Week 17 (13.9 a game over 8 games), Geno Smith 105 (15.0 a game over 7 games).
Should I drop Malik Nabers for Geno Smith?
No. Keep Malik Nabers: he projects 111 market-implied PPR points from Week 10 through Week 17 (13.9 a game over 8 games), Geno Smith 105 (15.0 a game over 7 games).
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