Should I start Baker Mayfield or Marvin Harrison Jr. in Week 9?
Updated Nov 4, 1:36 PM ET. Week 10 answers post Tuesday.
Start Baker Mayfield: 95 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Marvin Harrison Jr.'s 21 percent of the snaps and 14 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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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.
QB20 · TB · bye 10
2026 vs pass yds line 1-4
- Overall rank
- 113
WR41 · HOU · bye 8
2026 vs anytime td line 1-3
- Market-based projection
- 6.7 pts a game
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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 Baker Mayfield, and the board ranks him 113th overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 20.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Marvin Harrison Jr., and the board ranks him 114th overall on the rest of his evidence.
By format he goes standard: ADP 19; 2QB: ADP 41.
The market-based projections
The market-based projection for Baker Mayfield is 15.7 PPR points a game off 4 markets across 14 market sources. That is 80 percent of what a quarterback's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
Marvin Harrison Jr.'s market-based projection is 6.7 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 10 market sources. That is the 109th highest figure of the 223 players with a market-based projection.
Baker Mayfield's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season so far
Through Week 8, Baker Mayfield has been on the field for 97 percent of TB snaps, dropped back 134 times and thrown 8.4 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 23 of 134 dropbacks and scrambled 10 times.
In Week 3 against MIN he completed 17 of 34 passes for 217 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 1 interception and ran 2 times for 6 yards.
In Week 7 against CAR he completed 7 of 11 passes for 64 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 1 time for 1 yards.
In Week 8 against ATL he completed 0 of 3 passes for 0 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 3 times for 15 yards.
Through Week 7, Marvin Harrison Jr. has been on the field for 21 percent of HOU snaps, drawn 14 percent of the targets and had 13 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 2 of the offence's 8 third down targets, had 0 of its 4 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 6 two minute targets.
His 4 targets have averaged 20.5 air yards.
In Week 7 against NYG he caught 1 of 4 targets for 6 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Baker Mayfield played 17 games and scored 282.9 PPR points, 16.6 a game, finishing QB12.
He threw for 3693 yards on 543 attempts with 26 touchdowns and 11 interceptions, and ran for 382 yards and 1 touchdown.
That came to 31.9 attempts a game at 6.8 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 97 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
In 2025 Marvin Harrison Jr. played 12 games and scored 127.8 PPR points, 10.7 a game, finishing WR49.
He caught 41 of 73 targets for 608 yards and 4 touchdowns, with 9 red zone targets.
That came to 6.1 targets a game, a 56 percent catch rate and 14.8 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 72 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Baker Mayfield was available for 5 games more.
Side by side
In 2025 Baker Mayfield scored 16.6 PPR points a game and Marvin Harrison Jr. 10.7, 6.0 a game between them.
Baker Mayfield finished QB12 and Marvin Harrison Jr. WR49, which are two different ladders.
Baker Mayfield is a quarterback and Marvin Harrison Jr. a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.
Byes and availability
Baker Mayfield is off in Week 10 and Marvin Harrison Jr. in Week 8, so either can cover the other's bye.
What would change the answer
Baker Mayfield has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.
Both players in full
Week 9 on the board
- Is Baker Mayfield playing Week 9?
- Is Marvin Harrison Jr. playing Week 9?
- Buccaneers depth chart
- Texans depth chart
- Week 9 QB rankings
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- Week 9 fantasy rankings
- Week 9 start or sit
- Week 9 waiver wire
- Week 9 trade value chart
- Trade deadline buy low, sell high
- Fantasy football rankings
- Start 'em sit 'em Week 9
- Waiver wire pickups
- Fantasy sleepers
- Rest of season rankings
- Week 9 kicker rankings
- Week 9 defense rankings
