Should I start Malik Nabers or Matthew Golden in Week 10?

Where the draft room stands

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.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Matthew Golden, and the board ranks him 71st overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Malik Nabers's market-based projection is 15.2 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 12th highest figure of the 208 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Matthew Golden is 2.9 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 30 percent of what a wide receiver's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Matthew Golden's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season through Week 9

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.

Through Week 9, Matthew Golden has been on the field for 83 percent of GB snaps, drawn 28 percent of the targets and had 16 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 30 of the offence's 94 third down targets, had 3 of its 23 chances inside the five and seen 13 of its 38 two minute targets.

His 92 targets have averaged 14.0 air yards.

In Week 7 against DET he caught 6 of 12 targets for 39 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against CAR he caught 7 of 13 targets for 79 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 9 against NE he caught 10 of 10 targets for 164 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 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.

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.

Malik Nabers finished WR101 that year and Matthew Golden WR89.

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, 83 percent against 77 percent.

This season Malik Nabers holds the bigger target share, 30 percent against 28 percent.

Byes and availability

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

What would change the answer

Matthew Golden has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.