Matthew Golden or Malik Nabers: who should I start in Week 3?

What the sportsbooks price

The player markets price Matthew Golden at 12.3 PPR points a game, built from 4 markets across 17 books. That is the 72nd highest figure of the 186 players the books price.

The player markets price Malik Nabers at 12.1 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 15 books. That is the 75th highest figure of the 186 players the books price.

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Matthew Golden: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 46th overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 117.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Malik Nabers: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 50th overall on the rest of his evidence.

By format he goes standard: ADP 12; 2QB: ADP 45.

This season through Week 2

Through Week 2, Matthew Golden has been on the field for 84 percent of GB snaps, drawn 26 percent of the targets and had 17 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 6 of the offence's 19 third down targets, had 0 of its 2 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 12 two minute targets.

His 18 targets have averaged 12.1 air yards.

In Week 1 against MIN he caught 6 of 12 targets for 95 yards and did not score.

In Week 2 against NYJ he caught 4 of 6 targets for 58 yards and did not score.

Through Week 2, Malik Nabers has been on the field for 62 percent of NYG snaps, drawn 21 percent of the targets and had 13 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 3 of the offence's 17 third down targets, had 0 of its 4 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 6 two minute targets.

His 13 targets have averaged 13.8 air yards.

In Week 1 against DAL he caught 6 of 9 targets for 69 yards and did not score.

In Week 2 against LAR he caught 1 of 4 targets for 1 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Matthew Golden played 14 games and scored 70.0 PPR points, 5.0 a game, finishing WR89.

He caught 29 of 44 targets for 361 yards and 0 touchdowns, with 2 red zone targets.

That came to 3.1 targets a game, a 66 percent catch rate and 12.4 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 50 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.

Matthew Golden was available for 10 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Malik Nabers scored 14.3 PPR points a game and Matthew Golden 5.0, 9.3 a game between them.

Matthew Golden finished WR89 that year and Malik Nabers WR101.

Matthew Golden had 9 more targets than Malik Nabers, 44 to 35.

Matthew Golden had 90 more receiving yards than Malik Nabers, 361 to 271.

This season Matthew Golden holds the bigger snap share, 84 percent against 62 percent.

This season Matthew Golden holds the bigger target share, 26 percent against 21 percent.

Byes and availability

Matthew Golden is off in Week 11 and Malik Nabers in Week 8, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

0.2 points a game is the entire case. The books restate it every week, and a line that moves moves the order with it.

The draft market is the half that is missing: when the consensus sample holds these two again it can order them differently from the price, and this page will follow the sample rather than the books when it does.