Should I start Amon-Ra St. Brown or Marvin Mims Jr. in Week 9?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Amon-Ra St. Brown, and the board ranks him 51st overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 11.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Marvin Mims Jr., and the board ranks him 54th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market has Amon-Ra St. Brown at 4.8 PPR points a game off 1 market across 5 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.

Marvin Mims Jr.'s market-based projection is 4.5 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 6 market sources. That is the 57th highest figure of the 211 players with a market-based projection.

Amon-Ra St. Brown's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season through Week 8

Through Week 8, Amon-Ra St. Brown has been on the field for 85 percent of DET snaps, drawn 31 percent of the targets and had 18 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 24 of the offence's 60 third down targets, had 5 of its 22 chances inside the five and seen 9 of its 30 two minute targets.

His 76 targets have averaged 8.4 air yards.

In Week 5 against ARI he caught 6 of 11 targets for 69 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against GB he carried 1 time for -1 yards, caught 9 of 11 targets for 153 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against MIN he carried 1 time for 10 yards, caught 7 of 8 targets for 46 yards and did not score.

Through Week 8, Marvin Mims Jr. has been on the field for 28 percent of DEN snaps, drawn 9 percent of the targets and had 7 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 16 third down targets, had 0 of its 9 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 4 two minute targets.

His 5 targets have averaged 1.2 air yards.

In Week 7 against ARI he carried 1 time for 3 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 53 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against KC he carried 2 times for 19 yards, caught 2 of 3 targets for 10 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Amon-Ra St. Brown played 17 games and scored 324.0 PPR points, 19.1 a game, finishing WR3.

He caught 117 of 172 targets for 1401 yards and 11 touchdowns, with 34 red zone targets.

That came to 10.1 targets a game, a 68 percent catch rate and 12.0 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 85 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Marvin Mims Jr. played 15 games and scored 93.0 PPR points, 6.2 a game, finishing WR66.

He caught 37 of 51 targets for 322 yards and 1 touchdown, with 2 red zone targets.

That came to 3.4 targets a game, a 73 percent catch rate and 8.7 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 35 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Amon-Ra St. Brown was available for 2 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Amon-Ra St. Brown scored 19.1 PPR points a game and Marvin Mims Jr. 6.2, 12.9 a game between them.

Amon-Ra St. Brown finished WR3 that year and Marvin Mims Jr. WR66.

Amon-Ra St. Brown had 121 more targets than Marvin Mims Jr., 172 to 51.

Amon-Ra St. Brown had 1079 more receiving yards than Marvin Mims Jr., 1401 to 322.

This season Amon-Ra St. Brown holds the bigger snap share, 85 percent against 28 percent.

This season Amon-Ra St. Brown holds the bigger target share, 31 percent against 9 percent.

Byes and availability

Amon-Ra St. Brown is off in Week 6 and Marvin Mims Jr. in Week 10, so either can cover the other's bye.

Amon-Ra St. Brown is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

Amon-Ra St. Brown has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.