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Should I start Simi Fehoko or Brian Thomas Jr. in Week 10?

Updated Nov 11, 8:16 PM ET.

Week 10 verdict

Start

WR · JAX · at TEN

Market projects
3.9
recent weeks avg
TEN D vs WR
40.7
most to WRs (2026)
Upside
Moderate
61 of 100 at WR
Snap share
43%
Through Week 9
Target share
5%
Through Week 9
Sit

WR · ARI · vs LAR

Market projects
3.7
fantasy pts
LAR D vs WR
26.8
5th fewest to WRs (2026)
Snap share
19%
Through Week 9
Target share
1%
Through Week 9
Start Thomas or Fehoko? The full Week 10 breakdown

Start Brian Thomas Jr.: 43 percent of the snaps and 5 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Simi Fehoko's 34 percent of the snaps and 2 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.

WR56 · ARI · bye unlisted

2026 vs anytime td line 0-9

Market-based projection
3.7 pts a game

WR78 · JAX · bye 7

2026 vs anytime td line 2-6

Market-based projection
4.0 pts a game Wk 9 price
Overall rank
197

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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 Simi Fehoko, and the board ranks him 156th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Brian Thomas Jr., and the board ranks him 197th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Simi Fehoko's market-based projection is 3.7 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 7 market sources. That is the 150th highest figure of the 217 players with a market-based projection.

The market has Brian Thomas Jr. at 1.2 PPR points a game off 1 market across 14 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 9

Through Week 9, Simi Fehoko has been on the field for 19 percent of ARI snaps, drawn 1 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 73 third down targets, had 0 of its 20 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 36 two minute targets.

His 2 targets have averaged 21.0 air yards.

In Week 7 against DEN he was not given the ball.

In Week 8 against DAL he caught 1 of 1 target for 17 yards and did not score.

In Week 9 against SEA he caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

Through Week 9, Brian Thomas Jr. has been on the field for 43 percent of JAX snaps, drawn 5 percent of the targets and had 7 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 14 third down targets, had 0 of its 4 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 2 two minute 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.

In Week 9 against BAL he was not given the ball.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Simi Fehoko played 8 games.

He caught 0 of 0 targets for 0 yards and 0 touchdowns, with 0 red zone targets.

He was on the field for 7 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.

Brian Thomas Jr. was available for 6 games more.

Head to head

Brian Thomas Jr. had 91 more targets than Simi Fehoko, 91 to 0.

Brian Thomas Jr. had 707 more receiving yards than Simi Fehoko, 707 to 0.

This season Brian Thomas Jr. holds the bigger snap share, 43 percent against 19 percent.

This season Brian Thomas Jr. holds the bigger target share, 5 percent against 1 percent.

Byes and availability

Brian Thomas Jr. is off in Week 7. No bye is listed for Simi Fehoko.

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.

Should I drop Brian Thomas Jr.?

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