Should I start Josh Cuevas or Adonai Mitchell in Week 10?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Josh Cuevas, and the board ranks him 172nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Adonai Mitchell, and the board ranks him 177th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Josh Cuevas's market-based projection is 3.0 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 5 market sources. That is the 141st highest figure of the 214 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Adonai Mitchell is 1.4 PPR points a game off 1 market across 12 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a wide receiver's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Adonai Mitchell's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season through Week 9

Through Week 9, Josh Cuevas has been on the field for 22 percent of BAL snaps, drawn 5 percent of the targets and had 2 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 72 third down targets, had 1 of its 26 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 49 two minute targets.

His 13 targets have averaged 5.5 air yards.

In Week 7 against CIN he caught 2 of 3 targets for 35 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against BUF he caught 1 of 2 targets for 15 yards and did not score.

In Week 9 against JAX he was not given the ball.

Through Week 9, Adonai Mitchell has been on the field for 70 percent of NYJ snaps, drawn 23 percent of the targets and had 11 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 12 of the offence's 43 third down targets, had 2 of its 14 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 13 two minute targets.

His 34 targets have averaged 17.6 air yards.

In Week 7 against MIA he caught 0 of 3 targets for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against LV he caught 7 of 9 targets for 142 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 9 against KC he caught 0 of 7 targets for 0 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

Josh Cuevas is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.

In 2025 Adonai Mitchell played 16 games and scored 87.9 PPR points, 5.5 a game, finishing WR73.

He caught 33 of 74 targets for 453 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 7 red zone targets.

That came to 4.6 targets a game, a 45 percent catch rate and 13.7 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 50 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Side by side

Josh Cuevas is a tight end and Adonai Mitchell a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Adonai Mitchell is off in Week 13. No bye is listed for Josh Cuevas.

What would change the answer

Adonai Mitchell has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.