Should I start Marvin Mims Jr. or Braelon Allen in Week 9?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Marvin Mims Jr., and the board ranks him 96th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Braelon Allen, and the board ranks him 97th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Marvin Mims Jr.'s market-based projection is 4.3 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 106th highest figure of the 219 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Braelon Allen is 3.9 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, 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.

Through Week 8, Braelon Allen has been on the field for 66 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

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.

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.

Marvin Mims Jr. was available for 11 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Marvin Mims Jr. scored 6.2 PPR points a game and Braelon Allen 3.8, 2.4 a game between them.

Marvin Mims Jr. finished WR66 and Braelon Allen RB100, which are two different ladders.

Marvin Mims Jr. is a wide receiver 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

Marvin Mims Jr. is off in Week 10 and Braelon Allen in Week 13, so either can cover the other's bye.

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.