Start Malik Nabers or Luther Burden III? Week 5
Locks at kickoff, graded after.
Start Malik Nabers over Luther Burden III
- Market projects
- 12.3
- fantasy pts
- WAS D vs WR
- 40.3
- 4th most to WRs (2026)
- Snap share
- 70%
- Through Week 4
- Target share
- 23%
- Through Week 4
- Market projects
- 11.4
- fantasy pts
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Our Week 5 call
Start Malik Nabers over Luther Burden III in Week 5.
Market-based projections have Malik Nabers at 12.3 points and Luther Burden III at 11.4, a gap of 0.8. That is inside the noise of a single catch, so treat it as close to a coin flip.
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What the market projects
Player markets imply 12.3 fantasy points for Malik Nabers, with 100 percent of the markets a WR needs posted.
The market gives Malik Nabers a 35% chance to score a touchdown (10 market sources).
Player markets imply 11.4 fantasy points for Luther Burden III, with 100 percent of the markets a WR needs posted.
The market has Luther Burden III at 47.5 receiving yards and 4.5 receptions, with a 30% chance to score a touchdown (10, 7 and 13 market sources).
That puts Malik Nabers 0.8 points ahead of Luther Burden III on the market projections.
Week 5 matchups
Malik Nabers and NYG visit WAS on Sunday at 1:00 PM ET.
WAS allowed 40.3 fantasy points a game to WRs this season over 4 games, the 4th most in the league.
Receivers caught passes for 167 yards and 1.5 touchdowns a game against WAS.
Injury status
Malik Nabers is listed as questionable with a undisclosed injury.
Luther Burden III is not on the injury report.
Usage before Week 5
Through Week 4, Malik Nabers played 70 percent of NYG snaps, drew 23 percent of the targets, earned 28 percent of the air yards and had 10 percent of the red zone chances.
Malik Nabers, Week 1 against DAL: 36 of 69 snaps, 9 targets and 6 catches for 69 yards.
Malik Nabers, Week 2 against LAR: 43 of 58 snaps, 4 targets and 1 catch for 1 yards.
Malik Nabers, Week 3 against TEN: 50 of 64 snaps, 6 targets and 5 catches for 26 yards.
Malik Nabers, Week 4 against ARI: 51 of 67 snaps, 7 targets and 6 catches for 112 yards, 1 touchdown.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025, Malik Nabers played 4 games for NYG 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 and 219 air yards.
He was on the field for 78 percent of the offense's snaps in the games he played.
Their other Week 5 calls
On the draft board
Ranked ahead
WR14 · NYG · bye 8
2026 vs anytime td line 1-3
- Overall rank
- 32
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 10
Ranked behind
WR20 · CHI · bye 10
2026 vs anytime td line 1-3
- Overall rank
- 45
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 12
The board cards are draft figures, not the week's call. Locks at kickoff, graded after. When the start/sit engine grades week 5, the call and the result appear on the public record, wrong ones included.
The gap between them
- Spots apart on the board13
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Tierstier 10 and tier 12
- Board size258 draftable players
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