Two players, one answer.
Malik Nabers vs Rashee Rice
This week
Toss-up · 15.9 to 15.8 projected (Week 9, PPR)
Rest of season
Malik Nabers by 37% (Redraft PPR)Dynasty
Malik Nabers by 41% (Dynasty Superflex)
Week 9 · PPR · 50% held up in 2025
A toss-up
On Sleeper's projections, Malik Nabers is projected 0.1 points ahead of Rashee Rice. In the 2025 season, a player projected that far ahead outscored the other 50% of the time. That's close to a coin flip: on these projections neither is the better start, and an injury report or a projection update before kickoff can tip it.
WR · NYG
Malik Nabers
15.9 projected
@ PHI · Sun 1:00 PM ET
17.2 a game this season · last 3: 29.1, 28.5, 18.1
WR · KC
Rashee Rice
15.8 projected
vs NYJ · Sun 1:00 PM ET
14.1 a game this season · last 3: 12.3, 15.8, 18.3
- Malik Nabers has scored 25.2 a game over his last three, above his 17.2 season average.
What the call rests on
- Malik Nabers: Sleeper's projection, last changed Tue, Nov 3, 9:40 PM ET
- Rashee Rice: Sleeper's projection, last changed Tue, Nov 3, 9:40 PM ET
- Sleeper's projections read Tue, Nov 3, 9:42 PM ET.
- Injury statuses read Tue, Nov 3, 9:42 PM ET, with the projections (hourly). A fresh projection time doesn't mean every status is: game-day inactives, about 90 minutes before kickoff, can come after it.
| Same projections, scored | Nabers | Rice |
|---|---|---|
| PPR | 15.9 | 15.8 |
| Half PPR | 13.2 | 13.2 |
| Standard | 10.5 | 10.6 |
What could change it before kickoff
- A projection update of 0.1 points or more in the other direction flips the call; Sleeper keeps adjusting its projections until kickoff, and this page reads them again at most an hour after it last did.
- In standard scoring the call goes the other way: Rashee Rice 10.6, Malik Nabers 10.5.
Open in Who should I start (your league, more players)
This week’s projections are Sleeper’s, scored with PPR settings. The percentage is how often a projected gap like this held up across the 2025 season; checked against 2026 games (not used to fit it), the stated chances so far run a few points high, so read a 60% call as nearer 55%.