Should I start Jacob Saylors or Malik Nabers in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jacob Saylors, and the board ranks him 141st overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Malik Nabers, and the board ranks him 142nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

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

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Jacob Saylors is 0.2 PPR points a game off 1 market across 12 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

The market-based projection for Malik Nabers is 2.5 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.

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

This season so far

Through Week 3, Jacob Saylors has been on the field for 3 percent of DET snaps, taken 0 percent of the carries, drawn 0 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 6 third down targets, had 0 of its 3 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 4 two minute targets.

In Week 3 against NYJ he carried 0 times for 0 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 Jacob Saylors played 16 games and scored 1.1 PPR points, 0.1 a game, finishing RB136.

He carried 2 times for 11 yards and 0 touchdowns, and caught 0 of 0 targets for 0 more yards.

That came to 0.1 carries a game at 6 yards a carry.

He was on the field for 1 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.

Jacob Saylors was available for 12 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Malik Nabers scored 14.3 PPR points a game and Jacob Saylors 0.1, 14.2 a game between them.

Jacob Saylors finished RB136 and Malik Nabers WR101, which are two different ladders.

Jacob Saylors is a running back 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

Jacob Saylors is off in Week 6 and Malik Nabers in Week 8, so either can cover the other's bye.