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Should I start Jayden Higgins or Malik Nabers in Week 8?

Updated Oct 27, 12:26 PM ET.

Start Malik Nabers: he has been on the field this season, 84 percent of the snaps, and Jayden Higgins has no snap on record yet. 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.

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Neither man carries a season projection right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.

WR · HOU · on bye this week

2025 vs rec yds line 9-8

Overall rank
220

WR · NYG · on bye this week

2026 vs anytime td line 2-5

Market-based projection
14.4 pts a game Wk 7 price
Overall rank
225

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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 Jayden Higgins, and the board ranks him 220th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Malik Nabers, and the board ranks him 225th overall on the rest of his evidence.

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

The market-based projections

No season market is posted for Jayden Higgins, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.

No season market is posted for Malik Nabers, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.

Neither carries a posted market, so this page rests on the draft room and on what the two have already done.

This season through Week 7

The usage feed holds no snap or target counts for Jayden Higgins this season.

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.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Jayden Higgins played 17 games and scored 129.5 PPR points, 7.6 a game, finishing WR47.

He caught 41 of 68 targets for 525 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 7 red zone targets.

That came to 4.0 targets a game, a 60 percent catch rate and 12.8 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 56 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.

Jayden Higgins was available for 13 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Malik Nabers scored 14.3 PPR points a game and Jayden Higgins 7.6, 6.7 a game between them.

Jayden Higgins finished WR47 that year and Malik Nabers WR101.

Jayden Higgins had 33 more targets than Malik Nabers, 68 to 35.

Jayden Higgins had 254 more receiving yards than Malik Nabers, 525 to 271.

Byes and availability

Both are off in Week 8, so a roster holding the pair has that one week to cover twice.

Jayden Higgins is listed as ir on the injury report.

Both players in full

Week 8 on the board

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