Malik Nabers 2025 Season in Review

Malik Nabers finished 2025 as the number 102 wide receiver in total PPR scoring — and he didn't even play enough games to qualify for the per-game leaderboard. Brutal headline for what was supposed to be his year-two leap. Instead, Nabers played exactly four games before his season ended, and the Giants spent the rest of the year cycling through Jaxson Dart at quarterback while Wan'Dale Robinson led the team in receiving with 92 catches for 1,014 yards. When Nabers was on the field, he was the centerpiece. But four games is four games — and that's the entire fantasy story for 2025.

Now let's dig into the numbers. In his four appearances, Nabers caught 18 passes for 271 yards and 2 touchdowns on 35 targets — nearly nine targets a game and a 27 percent average target share, genuine alpha-receiver usage. His average air yards share was 44 percent: when the Giants threw deep, Nabers was the read. He averaged 14.3 PPR points per game, but that average hides everything, because this was boom-or-bust in its purest form. Week 2 in Dallas, he went off for 9 catches, 167 yards and 2 scores — 37.7 PPR points. The other three games? 12.1, then 3.3, then 4.0. One monster outing carried more than half his season total, and outside of that Dallas explosion he never cleared 13 PPR points. The usage said number-one receiver. The production said one elite ceiling game stapled to three quiet ones. Then the games stopped entirely.

The season's identity lives in that Dallas game — specifically the fourth quarter. Giants down 34 to 30, 33 seconds left, first and 10 from the Dallas 48. Russell Wilson dropped back from the shotgun and threw deep right to Nabers, who caught it in stride for a 48-yard touchdown. That was Nabers at full power: the air-yards monster, the deep target, the receiver this offense was built around. It's also the only game all year where the ceiling actually showed up. Four games, one explosion, and a fantasy ranking that doesn't reflect the talent — just the availability.