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Malik Nabers is a boom or bust fantasy football pick

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1 min
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Aug 23, 2026
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Sun, August 23, 2026
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Keenan AllenMalik Nabers
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Keenan Allen

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The source cites Keenan Allen's 2017 season as a historical benchmark for elite production following injury concerns, noting that he finished as the WR3 overall that year despite being faded by many in drafts.

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Malik Nabers

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The source projects Malik Nabers to have a breakout season comparable to Keenan Allen's 2017 campaign, where Allen finished as the WR3 overall. Despite early offseason injury concerns following a celebrity softball game, Nabers is reportedly ahead of schedule and expected to be ready for Week 1. He is positioned as the clear focal point of the Giants' passing attack with a projected 33% target share, making his current Round 3 ADP a significant value.

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0:00Yeah, I've got Malik neighbors is going
0:01to be the 2017 version of Keenan Allen.
0:04A lot of people might be going what?
0:05Well, Keenan Allen towards ACL in 2016
0:09and a lot of people saw that like that
0:10was the second straight year that he had
0:11had with injuries. There were some
0:13concerns about his durability and a lot
0:15of people found reasons to fade Keenan
0:16Allen going into that 2017 season. What
0:19did he do? He came out as the wide
0:21receiver three overall in scoring that
0:23year just bounced back like he never
0:24missed a beat and it seems like that's
0:26what we're getting from Malik neighbors
0:28now. You see these clips from camp. He
0:30is cutting, he's decelerating, he's
0:32accelerating, he's doing everything that
0:33we want to see and I know that there
0:35were some concerns earlier in the off
0:37season because there was that celebrity
0:38softball game where he was kind of
0:40limping to first base, but if you look
0:41at the timeline, I think a lot of people
0:43thought that that limping was from the
0:45surgery that he had in the winter when
0:47the reality is that celebrity softball
0:48game two weeks after the cleanup
0:50procedure on his knee. So, I think he
0:51was still feeling a little bit, you
0:52know, tight from that cleanup procedure,
0:54but they said that that was going to
0:55have him on track and ahead of schedule.
0:57Now, it seems like he's going to be
0:58ready to go as early as week one. When I
1:01look at this Giants offense, there's
1:02nobody else there catching passes. Like
1:04it is Malik neighbors and then just a
1:06bunch of guys. So, we've seen this guy
1:08already a 33% target share his rookie
1:11season. Now, the unquestioned guy at top
1:13this pecking order again and what we
1:15expect to be a better offense with
1:16Harbaugh there. This is a guy that I
1:18think everybody is just sleeping on
1:19right now. He's still falling in the
1:21round three of drafts and if you get a
1:22top three outcome from Malik neighbors,
1:24would not shock me one bit.

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