Should I start Adonai Mitchell or Treylon Burks in Week 8?
Updated Oct 28, 3:17 AM ET. Week 9 answers post Tuesday.
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Start Adonai Mitchell: 67 percent of the snaps and 20 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Treylon Burks's 62 percent of the snaps and 15 percent of the targets. No market projection is posted on either of them this week, so this is a usage call, and a lower confidence one than a call made on a projection. What follows is what each of them has done.
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Neither man carries a season projection right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.
WR65 · NYJ · bye 13
2025 vs anytime td line 2-14
- Market-based projection
- 6.3 pts a game Wk 7 price
- Overall rank
- 136
WR66 · WAS · bye 7
2026 vs anytime td line 2-3
- Overall rank
- 141
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The gap
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Draft data is not current for these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out. The call above comes from each player's usage.
Where the draft room stands
Live drafts hold no current pick on Adonai Mitchell, and the board ranks him 136th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Treylon Burks, and the board ranks him 141st overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
The market-based projection for Adonai Mitchell is 1.4 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 30 percent of what a wide receiver's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
The market-based projection for Treylon Burks is 1.3 PPR points a game off 1 market across 3 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 so far
Through Week 7, Adonai Mitchell has been on the field for 67 percent of NYJ snaps, drawn 20 percent of the targets and had 8 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 6 of the offence's 26 third down targets, had 0 of its 8 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 9 two minute targets.
His 18 targets have averaged 14.0 air yards.
In Week 1 against TEN he caught 3 of 3 targets for 60 yards and did not score.
In Week 2 against GB he caught 6 of 12 targets for 63 yards and did not score.
In Week 7 against MIA he caught 0 of 3 targets for 0 yards and did not score.
Through Week 6, Treylon Burks has been on the field for 50 percent of WAS snaps, drawn 11 percent of the targets and had 9 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 2 of the offence's 39 third down targets, had 0 of its 6 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 22 two minute targets.
His 17 targets have averaged 17.1 air yards.
In Week 4 against IND he caught 1 of 3 targets for 47 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 5 against NYG he caught 2 of 5 targets for 26 yards and did not score.
In Week 6 against SF he caught 4 of 6 targets for 66 yards and did not score.
Their 2025 seasons
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.
In 2025 Treylon Burks played 8 games and scored 29.0 PPR points, 3.6 a game, finishing WR138.
He caught 10 of 22 targets for 130 yards and 1 touchdown, with 4 red zone targets.
That came to 2.8 targets a game, a 45 percent catch rate and 13.0 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 58 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Adonai Mitchell was available for 8 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 Adonai Mitchell scored 5.5 PPR points a game and Treylon Burks 3.6, 1.9 a game between them.
Adonai Mitchell finished WR73 that year and Treylon Burks WR138.
Adonai Mitchell had 52 more targets than Treylon Burks, 74 to 22.
Adonai Mitchell had 323 more receiving yards than Treylon Burks, 453 to 130.
This season Adonai Mitchell holds the bigger snap share, 67 percent against 50 percent.
This season Adonai Mitchell holds the bigger target share, 20 percent against 11 percent.
Byes and availability
Adonai Mitchell is off in Week 13 and Treylon Burks in Week 7, so either can cover the other's bye.
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