Should I start Tee Higgins or Malik Nabers in Week 9?

The market-based projections

Tee Higgins's market-based projection is 16.7 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 24th highest figure of the 225 players with a market-based projection.

Malik Nabers's market-based projection is 15.5 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 10 market sources. That is the 37th highest figure of the 225 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Tee Higgins, and the board ranks him 23rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Malik Nabers, and the board ranks him 30th overall on the rest of his evidence.

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

This season so far

Through Week 8, Tee Higgins has been on the field for 80 percent of CIN snaps, drawn 23 percent of the targets and had 7 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 15 of the offence's 61 third down targets, had 0 of its 17 chances inside the five and seen 11 of its 43 two minute targets.

His 61 targets have averaged 13.6 air yards.

In Week 5 against MIA he caught 2 of 4 targets for 22 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against BAL he caught 6 of 7 targets for 148 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 8 against TEN he caught 10 of 11 targets for 155 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

Through Week 7, Malik Nabers has been on the field for 76 percent of NYG snaps, drawn 30 percent of the targets and had 15 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 15 of the offence's 61 third down targets, had 2 of its 13 chances inside the five and seen 12 of its 32 two minute targets.

His 70 targets have averaged 11.6 air yards.

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.

In Week 7 against HOU he caught 7 of 9 targets for 111 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Tee Higgins played 15 games and scored 211.6 PPR points, 14.1 a game, finishing WR15.

He caught 59 of 98 targets for 846 yards and 11 touchdowns, with 14 red zone targets.

That came to 6-7 targets a game, a 60 percent catch rate and 14.3 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 80 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.

Tee Higgins was available for 11 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Malik Nabers scored 14.3 PPR points a game and Tee Higgins 14.1, 0.2 a game between them.

Tee Higgins finished WR15 that year and Malik Nabers WR101.

Tee Higgins had 63 more targets than Malik Nabers, 98 to 35.

Tee Higgins had 575 more receiving yards than Malik Nabers, 846 to 271.

This season Tee Higgins holds the bigger snap share, 80 percent against 76 percent.

This season Malik Nabers holds the bigger target share, 30 percent against 23 percent.

Byes and availability

Tee Higgins is off in Week 6 and Malik Nabers in Week 8, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

1.2 points a game is the entire case. The market restates it every week, and a line that moves moves the order with it.

The draft market is the half that is missing: when live drafts hold these two again they can order them differently from the projection, and this page will follow the drafts rather than the market-based projection when they do.