Should I start Malik Nabers or Marvin Harrison Jr. in Week 8?
Updated Oct 27, 10:11 AM 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 Marvin Harrison Jr.'s 21 percent of the snaps and 14 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.
WR · NYG · on bye this week
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- Market-based projection
- 14.4 pts a game Wk 7 price
- Overall rank
- 225
WR · HOU · on bye this week
2026 vs anytime td line 1-3
- Overall rank
- 226
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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 225th overall on the rest of his evidence.
By format he goes standard: ADP 12; 2QB: ADP 27.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Marvin Harrison Jr., and the board ranks him 226th overall on the rest of his evidence.
By format he goes standard: ADP 19; 2QB: ADP 41.
The market-based projections
No season market is posted for Malik Nabers, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
No season market is posted for Marvin Harrison Jr., 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, 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.
Through Week 7, Marvin Harrison Jr. has been on the field for 21 percent of HOU snaps, drawn 14 percent of the targets and had 13 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 2 of the offence's 8 third down targets, had 0 of its 4 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 6 two minute targets.
His 4 targets have averaged 20.5 air yards.
In Week 7 against NYG he caught 1 of 4 targets for 6 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
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 Marvin Harrison Jr. played 12 games and scored 127.8 PPR points, 10.7 a game, finishing WR49.
He caught 41 of 73 targets for 608 yards and 4 touchdowns, with 9 red zone targets.
That came to 6.1 targets a game, a 56 percent catch rate and 14.8 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 72 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Marvin Harrison Jr. was available for 8 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 Malik Nabers scored 14.3 PPR points a game and Marvin Harrison Jr. 10.7, 3.6 a game between them.
Malik Nabers finished WR101 that year and Marvin Harrison Jr. WR49.
Marvin Harrison Jr. had 38 more targets than Malik Nabers, 73 to 35.
Marvin Harrison Jr. had 337 more receiving yards than Malik Nabers, 608 to 271.
This season Malik Nabers holds the bigger snap share, 76 percent against 21 percent.
This season Malik Nabers holds the bigger target share, 30 percent against 14 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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