Should I start AJ Barner or Jeremy McNichols in Week 9?
Updated Nov 4, 8:21 PM ET. Week 10 answers post Tuesday.
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- : Jeremy McNichols: Questionable to IR (Foot) (Sleeper injury feed)
- : Jeremy McNichols: Listed Questionable (Undisclosed) (Sleeper injury feed)
Start AJ Barner: 89 percent of the snaps and 13 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Jeremy McNichols's 19 percent of the snaps and 24 percent of the carries. 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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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.
TE18 · SEA · bye 11
2026 vs anytime td line 1-7
- Market-based projection
- 6.7 pts a game
RB36 · WAS · bye 7
2025 vs anytime td line 1-16
- Market-based projection
- 5.1 pts a game Wk 8 price
- Overall rank
- 123
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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 AJ Barner, and the board ranks him 122nd overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Jeremy McNichols, and the board ranks him 123rd overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
AJ Barner's market-based projection is 6.7 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 115th highest figure of the 225 players with a market-based projection.
No season market is posted for Jeremy McNichols, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
This season through Week 8
Through Week 8, AJ Barner has been on the field for 89 percent of SEA snaps, drawn 14 percent of the targets and had 12 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 5 of the offence's 70 third down targets, had 3 of its 19 chances inside the five and seen 7 of its 43 two minute targets.
His 34 targets have averaged 2.1 air yards.
In Week 6 against DEN he caught 3 of 4 targets for 16 yards and did not score.
In Week 7 against KC he carried 3 times for 4 yards, caught 4 of 5 targets for 42 yards and did not score.
In Week 8 against CHI he caught 2 of 5 targets for 23 yards and did not score.
Through Week 8, Jeremy McNichols has been on the field for 19 percent of WAS snaps, taken 24 percent of the carries, drawn 2 percent of the targets and had 21 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 0 of the offence's 16 third down targets, had 1 of its 4 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 7 two minute targets.
His 1 target have averaged 1.0 air yards.
In Week 6 against SF he carried 5 times for 13 yards and did not score.
In Week 8 against PHI he carried 5 times for 21 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 7 yards and did not score.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 AJ Barner played 17 games and scored 147.3 PPR points, 8.7 a game, finishing TE14.
He caught 52 of 68 targets for 519 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 12 red zone targets.
That came to 4.0 targets a game, a 76 percent catch rate and 10.0 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 78 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
In 2025 Jeremy McNichols played 17 games and scored 72.7 PPR points, 4.3 a game, finishing RB58.
He carried 44 times for 221 yards and 1 touchdown, and caught 25 of 31 targets for 196 more yards.
That came to 2.6 carries a game at 5.0 yards a carry and 1-2 catches a game.
He was on the field for 33 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Both were available for 17 games that season.
Side by side
In 2025 AJ Barner scored 8.7 PPR points a game and Jeremy McNichols 4.3, 4.4 a game between them.
AJ Barner finished TE14 and Jeremy McNichols RB58, which are two different ladders.
AJ Barner is a tight end and Jeremy McNichols a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.
Byes and availability
AJ Barner is off in Week 11 and Jeremy McNichols in Week 7, so either can cover the other's bye.
Jeremy McNichols is listed as ir on the injury report.
What would change the answer
Jeremy McNichols has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.
Both players in full
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