Is Malik Nabers a scary fantasy draft pick?
Yahoo Fantasy's Matt Harmon and Ray Garvin decide if Nabers is a fantasy liability coming off a torn ACL and where he'd rank if completely healthy. Check out the full conversation on the "Yahoo Fantasy Forecast" podcast - and subscribe on Apple Podcasts , Spotify or wherever you listen.
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Th- that don't do nothing for me, Harmon.
If Nabers is on the field, this dude is so far beyond where they-- They'll have a role, get the hell out of the way and clear stuff out for number one, and you're right.
They're running him downfield all with, with, with Russell Wilson, and he's still commanding it.
I, I'm still having flashbacks of what he did to the Dallas Cowboys early in the season.
It, it's, it's scary, I get it, and here's what I'll say.
The expectation early on, I'm not thinking that he's going to look exactly like Malik Nabers week one of the regular season if he's out there, week two of the regular season out, is if, if he's out there.
But if he's healthy enough to be on the field and, and work himself into this, by the time I need him to get, get on the, get on the gas and go, we, we should be, we should be ramped up.
We should feel a lot better, about Nabers at that point.
I think the best way to sort of end this conversation on Nabers, and I, I, I'm glad we're having an extended conversation on him because he's a really interesting player to talk about and, and again, juggling the injuries and the ceiling and all that.
If you were to sit down, Ray, and do your real-life receiver rankings, you know, not fantasy or anything, where would you place Malik Nabers?
As we're talking about, oh, 80% or this or that percent of the player, like 100% Malik Nabers fully healthy, where would you rank him, you know, in like your real-life receiver rankings?
Real-life receiver rankings, and I'm not gonna try to be-- I'm, I'm gonna take in the right now, not be prisoner in the moment.
He is 100% healthy.
Jamar, JSN, Puka.
Jefferson?
He, right in that mix.
He, he's gotta be right in that mix.
He, he's right there.
I'm thinking Jefferson.
I think Pickens is a top five talent.
Nabers is right there inside that big four, big top five for sure.
Yeah, I think I, I've thought a lot about this.
I would say, you know, Jamar number one, Jefferson's still number two to me.
Yeah, and then it's, it's JSN, it's Puka.
I think St. Brown, and I think Nico Collins is in that conversation.
And yeah, then it's Malik Nabers.
So it's like five, six
