Malik Nabers
NYGWR4 · overall #10 · tier 2 · age 23
Projected points
204
14.6/gm
Value over replacement
100
repl 119
Range
123–286
sd 82
Week
8.5
vs ARI
The take
written by hand
My biggest disagreement with the room and my shakiest. 11.9 targets a game is the highest at the position, 9.6 projected games is not, and he carries a questionable tag. If he plays fifteen he's a top-five receiver and I'm still light.
Why this ranking
hand-set 2026-09-03
204.4 over 14.0 games = 14.60/g. BOTH FACTORS STATED, and they were wrong in OPPOSITE directions. Games: avail_flat 0.559 reads 15 games as a rookie and 4 in 2025, which is a real record, but the 2025 loss was an October ACL he is now back from -- the beat has him practising, 'felt great', and 'not likely to start camp on PUP'. 14 games is a recovered ACL, not a fragile player. Rate: 15.87/g and 11.87 tgt/g were ABOVE his own rookie season (14.61/g on 11.33 targets) and rested on a 9.6-game projection -- a limited-usage read priced as an elite rate. Held to the 14.61 he actually produced over 15 games. Note the model is not wrong to carry a designation: news_severity stays 0.85 because the cap deliberately never drops a player below his ESPN designation, and that designation looks stale against the reporting. This is the fix for that. Re-read 3 Sep: the rate VERIFIES. 14.60/g is his own rookie-season rate of 14.61 across 15 games, which is what the row set it to. Board WR5 against ADP WR14, ECR WR22, consensus WR12, Underdog WR9 -- we are above all four, and that is a disagreement about a 22-year-old coming off an ACL rather than a stale premise.
This is a view, not a correction — the model said something different and was overruled. See how it works.
Projected usage
opportunity, before efficiency
- Targets / game
- 11.0
- Carries / game
- 0.2
- Receptions / game
- 6.7
- Rec yards / game
- 82
- Rush yards / game
- 1
- Rush TD / game
- 0.00
- Rec TD / game
- 0.50
- Total TD / game
- 0.50
- Games projected
- 14.0
- Observed pts/gm (history)
- 17.1
- Games of history
- 19
- Age multiplier
- 1.052
- Usage carryover
- 0.90
Team context
what scales this projection
- Neutral sec / play
- 32.3
- Projected plays / game
- 62.6
- Projected pass rate
- 57%
- OL run block
- +0.24
- OL pass protection
- -0.01
- OL continuity
- 75%
- 2TE rate
- 32%
- 3WR rate
- 67%
- 1st-down pass rate
- 47%
- Run friendly
- -0.84
- Scheme creativity
- +0.09
- Play action / motion
- 22% / 40%
Situation
ambiguity widens the projection range
- Label
- new head coach, committee
- Ambiguity score
- 98
- Effective contributors
- 3.53
- Top player's share
- 47%
- New play-caller
- yes
- Variance multiplier
- 2.55
Trade window
schedule-driven buy / sell timing
- Action
- sell high
- Window weeks
- 4-6
- Window opponents
- ARI,WAS,NO
- Window matchup
- +0.48
- Opponents after
- HOU,PHI
- After matchup
- -0.88
- Flip edge
- +1.36
- Buy basis
- recent form
- Bye week
- 8
- Playoff schedule (15-17)
- +0.85
2025 game log
full season · Full PPR
Games
4
Points
57.1
Per game
14.28
17-gm pace
243
Best / worst
37.7 / 3.3
Pace extrapolates the selected weeks over 17 games. It is what that stretch was worth, not a projection — no availability, matchup or regression adjustment is applied.
| Wk | Pts | Rank | Tgt | Rec | Re Yds | Re TD | Att | Ru Yds |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 12.1 | WR29 | 12 | 5 | 71 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | 37.7 | WR2 | 13 | 9 | 167 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 | 3.3 | WR88 | 7 | 2 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 4 | 4.0 | WR76 | 3 | 2 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 |