Should I start Josh Cuevas or Braelon Allen in Week 9?
Updated Nov 3, 8:11 AM ET. Week 10 answers post Tuesday.
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Start Braelon Allen: 84 percent of the snaps and 76 percent of the carries over their last 3 games, against Josh Cuevas's 28 percent of the snaps and 10 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.
TE13 · BAL · bye unlisted
- Market-based projection
- 2.7 pts a game
RB31 · NYJ · bye 13
2026 vs carries line 5-3
- Market-based projection
- 16.9 pts a game Wk 8 price
- Overall rank
- 95
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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 Josh Cuevas, and the board ranks him 94th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Braelon Allen, and the board ranks him 95th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
Josh Cuevas's market-based projection is 2.7 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 10 market sources. That is the 73rd highest figure of the 183 players with a market-based projection.
The market-based projection for Braelon Allen is 3.7 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.
Braelon Allen's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season through Week 8
Through Week 8, Josh Cuevas has been on the field for 22 percent of BAL snaps, drawn 6 percent of the targets and had 2 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 1 of the offence's 66 third down targets, had 1 of its 26 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 47 two minute targets.
His 13 targets have averaged 5.5 air yards.
In Week 6 against CLE he caught 4 of 5 targets for 44 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 7 against CIN he caught 2 of 3 targets for 35 yards and did not score.
In Week 8 against BUF he caught 1 of 2 targets for 15 yards and did not score.
Through Week 8, Braelon Allen has been on the field for 64 percent of NYJ snaps, taken 56 percent of the carries, drawn 10 percent of the targets and had 32 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 4 of the offence's 61 third down targets, had 3 of its 14 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 34 two minute targets.
His 22 targets have come 0.1 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.
In Week 6 against NE he carried 17 times for 78 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 26 yards and did not score.
In Week 7 against MIA he carried 17 times for 104 yards, caught 6 of 7 targets for 30 yards and did not score.
In Week 8 against LV he carried 21 times for 147 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 6 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
Their 2025 seasons
Josh Cuevas is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.
In 2025 Braelon Allen played 4 games and scored 15.3 PPR points, 3.8 a game, finishing RB100.
He carried 18 times for 76 yards and 1 touchdown, and caught 2 of 3 targets for 17 more yards.
That came to 4-5 carries a game at 4.2 yards a carry and 0-1 catches a game.
He was on the field for 24 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Side by side
Josh Cuevas is a tight end and Braelon Allen a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.
Byes and availability
Braelon Allen is off in Week 13. No bye is listed for Josh Cuevas.
What would change the answer
Braelon Allen 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
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