Malik Nabers or Quinshon Judkins: who should I start in Week 5?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Malik Nabers: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 32nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

By format he goes standard: ADP 12; 2QB: ADP 28.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Quinshon Judkins: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 33rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

What the player markets price

The player markets price Malik Nabers at 13.2 PPR points a game, built from 4 markets across 15 market sources. That is the 57th highest figure of the 184 players the market prices.

The market has Quinshon Judkins at 13.7 PPR points a game off 3 markets across 15 market sources. That is 90 percent of what a running back's price needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Quinshon Judkins's price is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season through Week 4

Through Week 4, Malik Nabers has been on the field for 70 percent of NYG snaps, drawn 23 percent of the targets and had 10 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 9 of the offence's 39 third down targets, had 0 of its 5 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 15 two minute targets.

His 26 targets have averaged 11.5 air yards.

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

In Week 3 against TEN he caught 5 of 6 targets for 26 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against ARI he caught 6 of 7 targets for 112 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Through Week 4, Quinshon Judkins has been on the field for 62 percent of CLE snaps, taken 61 percent of the carries, drawn 14 percent of the targets and had 44 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 24 third down targets, had 4 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 17 two minute targets.

His 16 targets have come 1.8 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 2 against TB he carried 12 times for 21 yards, caught 5 of 5 targets for 27 yards and did not score.

In Week 3 against CAR he carried 18 times for 70 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 9 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against PIT he carried 17 times for 53 yards, caught 6 of 7 targets for 43 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 Quinshon Judkins played 15 games and scored 169.8 PPR points, 11.3 a game, finishing RB26.

He carried 230 times for 827 yards and 7 touchdowns, and caught 26 of 36 targets for 171 more yards.

That came to 15.3 carries a game at 3.6 yards a carry and 1.7 catches a game.

He was on the field for 50 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Quinshon Judkins was available for 11 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Malik Nabers scored 14.3 PPR points a game and Quinshon Judkins 11.3, 3.0 a game between them.

Malik Nabers finished WR101 and Quinshon Judkins RB26, which are two different ladders.

Malik Nabers is a wide receiver and Quinshon Judkins a running back, 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 and Quinshon Judkins in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.

Malik Nabers is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

Quinshon Judkins is only part priced, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.