Fantasy Football Advice: Marvin Harrison Jr. & Malik Nabers (2024)

The heart of fantasy football draft season is just a couple of weeks away. FantasyPros analysts Derek Brown, Andrew Erickson, Pat Fitzmaurice and Mike Maher continue a series of preseason roundtables by discussing QB strategy, players they’re second-guessing and offense that could be sneaky sources of fantasy football goodness. And check out last week’s fantasy football roundtable for even more expert advice.

Fantasy Football Advice

Rookie WRs taken in the first round of the NFL Draft often carry discount prices in fantasy drafts, but the top two WRs in this year’s draft — the Cardinals’ Marvin Harrison Jr. and the Giants’ Malik Nabers — are fairly expensive. Harrison is being drafted as a low-end WR1. Nabers is being drafted as a low-end WR2. How willing are you to draft Harrison and Nabers at those prices?

Bullish on Nabers

Mike Maher: I discussed Marvin Harrison Jr. in each of the first two pieces in this series (feel free to go back and check them out here and here!), so I’ll be brief on Harrison and focus more on Nabers here.

I’m of the belief that Harrison is being drafted at his ceiling and that there is more risk than potential reward at his current price. With Nabers, the price is much more reasonable, and I’m more willing to draft him despite my concerns about Daniel Jones and that offense.

Nabers is being drafted as WR24 overall right now, so he’s almost a WR3. And his consensus ADP is right around 50, meaning he is falling to the fourth or fifth round in most drafts. That’s a lot more appealing to me than the early second-round pick you’ll have you use to draft Harrison.

Andrew Erickson: I’m not drafting Harrison at his current cost. Every year, the biggest WR busts are the most expensive projection players. I feel there might be some disconnect between what MHJ offers as a real-life talent and how that will actually translate into fantasy production.

Malik Nabers IS the Giants offense. His target/catch volume is going to make him an immediate fantasy producer. Meanwhile, in Arizona, all the coaching staff does is talk up Trey McBride, Greg Dortch, James Conner, Michael Wilson, etc. They don’t have to force-feed Harrison. The Giants don’t have that option with Nabers.

Pat Fitzmaurice: I’m comfortable with the price on Harrison and have already paid it a couple of times in early drafts. There’s no such thing as a can’t-miss prospect, but based on what I saw from Harrison during his college career at Ohio State, I’d be pretty surprised if he missed.

Nabers is an equally extraordinary WR prospect, and he’s often been falling outside the top 20 at his position in early drafts. I have Nabers ranked WR16 and have been drafting him aggressively. He’s been tearing it up in training camp, looking like a star in the making.

I understand the reluctance to invest in a receiver who’s tethered to QB Daniel Jones, but it’s not as if Jones is incapable of throwing a spiral. Nabers is poised to claim a massive target share and become *the* focal point of the Giants’ offense.

In on Harrison, Nabers

Derek Brown: I’ll happily draft both at their current costs. The fantasy football industry has this one right. Yearly, as an industry, we have been too low on rookie wide receivers. That has been corrected (to an extent) in 2024 with these two players.