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Should I start Malik Nabers or Shedeur Sanders in Week 10?

Updated Nov 10, 10:11 AM ET.

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Start Malik Nabers: 80 percent of the snaps and 33 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Shedeur Sanders's 37 percent of the snaps and 0 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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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.

WR5 · NYG · bye 8

2026 vs anytime td line 2-6

Market-based projection
15.2 pts a game

QB7 · CLE · bye 11

2025 vs pass td line 2-6

Market-based projection
12.7 pts a game Wk 9 price
Overall rank
13

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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 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 Shedeur Sanders, and the board ranks him 13th 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 10th highest figure of the 207 players with a market-based projection.

No season market is posted for Shedeur Sanders, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.

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, Shedeur Sanders has been on the field for 37 percent of CLE snaps, dropped back 45 times and thrown 5.7 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 10 of 45 dropbacks and scrambled 7 times.

In Week 3 against CAR he completed 1 of 1 pass for 0 yards and threw 0 touchdowns and 0 interceptions.

In Week 8 against PIT he completed 2 of 2 passes for 2 yards and threw 0 touchdowns and 0 interceptions.

In Week 9 against NO he completed 19 of 30 passes for 297 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 9 times for 29 yards.

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 Shedeur Sanders played 8 games and scored 94.9 PPR points, 11.9 a game, finishing QB37.

He threw for 1400 yards on 212 attempts with 7 touchdowns and 10 interceptions, and ran for 169 yards and 1 touchdown.

That came to 26-27 attempts a game at 6.6 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 60 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Shedeur Sanders was available for 4 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Malik Nabers scored 14.3 PPR points a game and Shedeur Sanders 11.9, 2.4 a game between them.

Malik Nabers finished WR101 and Shedeur Sanders QB37, which are two different ladders.

Malik Nabers is a wide receiver and Shedeur Sanders a quarterback, 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 Shedeur Sanders in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

Shedeur Sanders has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.

Both players in full

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