Should I start Malachi Fields or Malik Nabers in Week 8?
Updated Oct 27, 12:21 PM ET. Week 9 answers post Tuesday.
Start Malik Nabers: 84 percent of the snaps and 36 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Malachi Fields's 80 percent of the snaps and 12 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.
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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.
WR88 · NYG · on bye this week
- Overall rank
- 218
WR · NYG · on bye this week
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- 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 Malachi Fields, and the board ranks him 218th 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 Malachi Fields, 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
Through Week 7, Malachi Fields has been on the field for 76 percent of NYG snaps, drawn 13 percent of the targets and had 6 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 9 of the offence's 61 third down targets, had 0 of its 13 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 32 two minute targets.
His 30 targets have averaged 13.8 air yards.
In Week 5 against WAS he caught 2 of 2 targets for 20 yards and did not score.
In Week 6 against NO he caught 2 of 8 targets for 19 yards and did not score.
In Week 7 against HOU he caught 4 of 5 targets for 83 yards and did not score.
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
Malachi Fields is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.
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.
Head to head
Their snap share this season is the same, 76 percent each.
This season Malik Nabers holds the bigger target share, 30 percent against 13 percent.
Byes and availability
Both are off in Week 8, so a roster holding the pair has that one week to cover twice.
Both players in full
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