Should I start Malik Nabers or Rashee Rice in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Malik Nabers, and the board ranks him 38th overall on the rest of his evidence.

By format he goes standard: ADP 12; 2QB: ADP 27.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Rashee Rice, and the board ranks him 176th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Malik Nabers's market-based projection is 14.5 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 53rd highest figure of the 208 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Rashee Rice is 2.3 PPR points a game off 1 market across 12 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a wide receiver's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

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

This season so far

Through Week 6, Malik Nabers has been on the field for 77 percent of NYG snaps, drawn 30 percent of the targets and had 17 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 12 of the offence's 55 third down targets, had 2 of its 10 chances inside the five and seen 9 of its 27 two minute targets.

His 61 targets have averaged 11.3 air yards.

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

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.

Through Week 4, Rashee Rice has been on the field for 64 percent of KC snaps, drawn 14 percent of the targets and had 9 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 4 of the offence's 33 third down targets, had 0 of its 14 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 16 two minute targets.

His 17 targets have averaged 7.4 air yards.

In Week 2 against IND he caught 4 of 6 targets for 83 yards and did not score.

In Week 3 against MIA he caught 7 of 9 targets for 88 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against LV he was not given the ball.

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 Rashee Rice played 8 games and scored 150.1 PPR points, 18.8 a game, finishing WR40.

He caught 53 of 78 targets for 571 yards and 5 touchdowns, with 18 red zone targets.

That came to 9.8 targets a game, a 68 percent catch rate and 10.8 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 73 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Rashee Rice was available for 4 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Rashee Rice scored 18.8 PPR points a game and Malik Nabers 14.3, 4.5 a game between them.

Malik Nabers finished WR101 that year and Rashee Rice WR40.

Rashee Rice had 43 more targets than Malik Nabers, 78 to 35.

Rashee Rice had 300 more receiving yards than Malik Nabers, 571 to 271.

This season Malik Nabers holds the bigger snap share, 77 percent against 64 percent.

This season Malik Nabers holds the bigger target share, 30 percent against 14 percent.

Byes and availability

Malik Nabers is off in Week 8 and Rashee Rice in Week 5, so either can cover the other's bye.

Rashee Rice is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

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