Should I start Kyle Monangai or Bo Nix in Week 9?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Kyle Monangai, and the board ranks him 103rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Bo Nix, and the board ranks him 104th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Kyle Monangai is 4.6 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 30 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Bo Nix's market-based projection is 16.0 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 15 market sources. That is the 26th highest figure of the 219 players with a market-based projection.

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

This season so far

Through Week 4, Kyle Monangai has been on the field for 41 percent of CHI snaps, taken 39 percent of the carries, drawn 4 percent of the targets and had 23 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 33 third down targets, had 6 of its 21 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 21 two minute targets.

His 5 targets have averaged 0.8 air yards.

In Week 2 against MIN he carried 10 times for 47 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 11 yards and did not score.

In Week 3 against PHI he carried 10 times for 31 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against NYJ he carried 30 times for 146 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 4 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

Through Week 8, Bo Nix has been on the field for 100 percent of DEN snaps, dropped back 268 times and thrown 5.4 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 26 of 268 dropbacks and scrambled 8 times.

In Week 6 against SEA he completed 17 of 27 passes for 107 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 3 times for 3 yards.

In Week 7 against ARI he completed 15 of 29 passes for 222 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 5 times for 75 yards.

In Week 8 against KC he completed 20 of 32 passes for 222 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 5 yards.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Kyle Monangai played 17 games and scored 146.7 PPR points, 8.6 a game, finishing RB30.

He carried 169 times for 783 yards and 5 touchdowns, and caught 18 of 30 targets for 164 more yards.

That came to 9.9 carries a game at 4.6 yards a carry and 1.1 catches a game.

He was on the field for 41 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Bo Nix played 17 games and scored 315.8 PPR points, 18.6 a game, finishing QB7.

He threw for 3931 yards on 612 attempts with 25 touchdowns and 11 interceptions, and ran for 356 yards and 5 touchdowns.

That came to 36.0 attempts a game at 6.4 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 100 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Both were available for 17 games that season.

Side by side

In 2025 Bo Nix scored 18.6 PPR points a game and Kyle Monangai 8.6, 9.9 a game between them.

Kyle Monangai finished RB30 and Bo Nix QB7, which are two different ladders.

Kyle Monangai is a running back and Bo Nix a quarterback, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Both are off in Week 10, so a roster holding the pair has that one week to cover twice.

Kyle Monangai is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

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