Malik Nabers fantasy football insight from Hayden Winks - PPR Rankings

The consensus around Nabers' timeline is about Week 3. That's what ESPN's Jordan Raanan hinted towards, noting it could be Week 1 to a short stint on PUP in the worst-end outcomes. He made progress in July after not looking right in a celebrity softball game in the offseason. He needed a cleanup procedure for a meniscus that was locking up, in addition to rehabbing his torn ACL. Multiple issues adds to the risk, and at the same time, Nabers is a 22-year-old world class athlete, even amongst NFL players. If he's out Weeks 1-3, for example, you are not getting 0 fantasy points in your starting lineup. It should be easy to find replacements when the rest of the league is healthy, so we should only knock him so much if his absence is in fact short. Players like this aren't immediately themselves, but after a month or so, they often are 80-90%. Nabers has as much potential as anyone outside of Round 1 from Week 5 on. He is PPR's WR6 on WR3 usage on a per-game basis since his rookie year in 2024. The Giants were 27th in scoring, 26th in passing yards, 27th in passing success rate, and 30th in EPA per dropback over that span, and he's barely played with Jaxson Dart, who is on pace to be a solid starting QB after making things work as a rookie himself. New York is still only projected for the 22nd-most points per the betting markets, but it should be a tier above what Nabers' has been used to. I'm buying the dip now that his ADP has settled past the third round. If we learn he's going to play in Week 1 or Week 2, then he'd be going next to A.J. Brown and George Pickens quite com...