Should I start Dyami Brown or Brian Thomas Jr. in Week 8?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Dyami Brown, and the board ranks him 167th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Brian Thomas Jr., and the board ranks him 195th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Dyami Brown's market-based projection is 3.7 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 8 market sources. That is the 144th highest figure of the 210 players with a market-based projection.

The market has Brian Thomas Jr. at 1.0 PPR points a game off 1 market across 13 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a wide receiver's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Brian Thomas Jr.'s projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season through Week 6

Through Week 6, Dyami Brown has been on the field for 47 percent of WAS snaps, drawn 9 percent of the targets and had 2 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 4 of the offence's 49 third down targets, had 1 of its 9 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 23 two minute targets.

His 16 targets have averaged 16.9 air yards.

In Week 4 against IND he caught 3 of 4 targets for 65 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against NYG he caught 1 of 2 targets for 2 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against SF he caught 1 of 1 target for 6 yards and did not score.

Through Week 6, Brian Thomas Jr. has been on the field for 43 percent of JAX snaps, drawn 11 percent of the targets and had 5 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 4 of the offence's 43 third down targets, had 1 of its 16 chances inside the five and seen 5 of its 23 two minute targets.

His 19 targets have averaged 11.5 air yards.

In Week 4 against CIN he caught 2 of 2 targets for 17 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 5 against PHI he caught 0 of 3 targets for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against HOU he caught 0 of 2 targets for 0 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Dyami Brown played 14 games and scored 49.7 PPR points, 3.6 a game, finishing WR110.

He caught 20 of 37 targets for 227 yards and 1 touchdown, with 9 red zone targets.

That came to 2.6 targets a game, a 54 percent catch rate and 11.4 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 36 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Brian Thomas Jr. played 14 games and scored 138.8 PPR points, 9.9 a game, finishing WR42.

He caught 48 of 91 targets for 707 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 6 red zone targets.

That came to 6-7 targets a game, a 53 percent catch rate and 14.7 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 79 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Both were available for 14 games that season.

Head to head

In 2025 Brian Thomas Jr. scored 9.9 PPR points a game and Dyami Brown 3.6, 6.4 a game between them.

Dyami Brown finished WR110 that year and Brian Thomas Jr. WR42.

Brian Thomas Jr. had 54 more targets than Dyami Brown, 91 to 37.

Brian Thomas Jr. had 480 more receiving yards than Dyami Brown, 707 to 227.

This season Dyami Brown holds the bigger snap share, 47 percent against 43 percent.

This season Brian Thomas Jr. holds the bigger target share, 11 percent against 9 percent.

Byes and availability

Brian Thomas Jr. is off in Week 7. No bye is listed for Dyami Brown.

What would change the answer

Brian Thomas Jr. has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.