Should I start J.J. McCarthy or Malik Nabers in Week 10?

The market-based projections

J.J. McCarthy's market-based projection is 16.0 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 9th highest figure of the 207 players with a market-based projection.

Malik Nabers's market-based projection is 15.2 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 10th highest figure of the 207 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on J.J. McCarthy, and the board ranks him 11th overall on the rest of his evidence.

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.

This season through Week 9

Through Week 9, J.J. McCarthy has been on the field for 49 percent of NYG snaps, dropped back 75 times and thrown 11.5 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 15 of 75 dropbacks and scrambled 3 times.

In Week 6 against NO he completed 11 of 17 passes for 243 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 1 interception and ran 2 times for 26 yards.

In Week 7 against HOU he completed 20 of 27 passes for 252 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 1 time for 1 yards.

In Week 9 against PHI he completed 12 of 19 passes for 127 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 3 times for 23 yards.

Through Week 9, Malik Nabers has been on the field for 77 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.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 J.J. McCarthy played 10 games and scored 137.4 PPR points, 13.7 a game, finishing QB30.

He threw for 1632 yards on 243 attempts with 11 touchdowns and 12 interceptions, and ran for 181 yards and 4 touchdowns.

That came to 24.3 attempts a game at 6.7 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 94 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.

J.J. McCarthy was available for 6 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Malik Nabers scored 14.3 PPR points a game and J.J. McCarthy 13.7, 0.5 a game between them.

J.J. McCarthy finished QB30 and Malik Nabers WR101, which are two different ladders.

J.J. McCarthy is a quarterback 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 J.J. McCarthy.

J.J. McCarthy is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

0.8 points a game is the entire case. The market restates it every week, and a line that moves moves the order with it.

The draft market is the half that is missing: when live drafts hold these two again they can order them differently from the projection, and this page will follow the drafts rather than the market-based projection when they do.