Should I start Brian Thomas Jr. or Jaylen Wright in Week 9?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Brian Thomas Jr., and the board ranks him 114th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jaylen Wright, and the board ranks him 115th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Brian Thomas Jr.'s market-based projection is 3.5 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 113th highest figure of the 217 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Jaylen Wright is 3.1 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 5 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.

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

This season through Week 8

Through Week 8, Brian Thomas Jr. has been on the field for 52 percent of JAX snaps, drawn 12 percent of the targets and had 25 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 5 third down targets.

His 2 targets have averaged 19.0 air yards.

In Week 8 against IND he caught 1 of 2 targets for 12 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Through Week 8, Jaylen Wright has been on the field for 13 percent of MIA snaps, taken 14 percent of the carries, drawn 1 percent of the targets and had 8 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 42 third down targets, had 0 of its 15 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 23 two minute targets.

His 2 targets have averaged 3.0 air yards.

In Week 5 against CIN he carried 6 times for 11 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against NYJ he carried 6 times for 8 yards, caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against NE he carried 2 times for 5 yards, caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

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.

In 2025 Jaylen Wright played 10 games and scored 48.2 PPR points, 4.8 a game, finishing RB70.

He carried 70 times for 288 yards and 2 touchdowns, and caught 5 of 9 targets for 44 more yards.

That came to 7.0 carries a game at 4.1 yards a carry and 0-1 catches a game.

He was on the field for 14 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Brian Thomas Jr. was available for 4 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Brian Thomas Jr. scored 9.9 PPR points a game and Jaylen Wright 4.8, 5.1 a game between them.

Brian Thomas Jr. finished WR42 and Jaylen Wright RB70, which are two different ladders.

Brian Thomas Jr. is a wide receiver and Jaylen Wright a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Brian Thomas Jr. is off in Week 7. No bye is listed for Jaylen Wright.

What would change the answer

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