Should I start Tee Higgins or Blake Corum in Week 9?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Tee Higgins, and the board ranks him 21st overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Blake Corum, and the board ranks him 23rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Tee Higgins's market-based projection is 16.5 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 21st highest figure of the 223 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Blake Corum is 13.5 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 13 market sources. That is 70 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

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

This season through Week 8

Through Week 8, Tee Higgins has been on the field for 80 percent of CIN snaps, drawn 23 percent of the targets and had 7 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 15 of the offence's 61 third down targets, had 0 of its 17 chances inside the five and seen 11 of its 43 two minute targets.

His 61 targets have averaged 13.6 air yards.

In Week 5 against MIA he caught 2 of 4 targets for 22 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against BAL he caught 6 of 7 targets for 148 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 8 against TEN he caught 10 of 11 targets for 155 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

Through Week 8, Blake Corum has been on the field for 30 percent of LAR snaps, taken 37 percent of the carries, drawn 5 percent of the targets and had 15 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 66 third down targets, had 2 of its 21 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 39 two minute targets.

His 15 targets have averaged 0.3 air yards.

In Week 6 against ARI he carried 9 times for 42 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 18 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 7 against LV he carried 17 times for 93 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 8 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 8 against LAC he carried 11 times for 73 yards, caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Tee Higgins played 15 games and scored 211.6 PPR points, 14.1 a game, finishing WR15.

He caught 59 of 98 targets for 846 yards and 11 touchdowns, with 14 red zone targets.

That came to 6-7 targets a game, a 60 percent catch rate and 14.3 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 80 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Blake Corum played 17 games and scored 122.2 PPR points, 7.2 a game, finishing RB40.

He carried 145 times for 746 yards and 6 touchdowns, and caught 8 of 14 targets for 36 more yards.

That came to 8-9 carries a game at 5.1 yards a carry and 0-1 catches a game.

He was on the field for 29 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Blake Corum was available for 2 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Tee Higgins scored 14.1 PPR points a game and Blake Corum 7.2, 6.9 a game between them.

Tee Higgins finished WR15 and Blake Corum RB40, which are two different ladders.

Tee Higgins is a wide receiver and Blake Corum a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Tee Higgins is off in Week 6 and Blake Corum in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

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