Should I start Brock Bowers or Josh Cuevas in Week 9?
Updated Nov 3, 8:11 AM ET. Week 10 answers post Tuesday.
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Start Brock Bowers: 85 percent of the snaps and 23 percent of the targets 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.
TE11 · LV · bye 13
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- Market-based projection
- 16.1 pts a game Wk 8 price
- Overall rank
- 80
TE13 · BAL · bye unlisted
- Market-based projection
- 2.7 pts a game
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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 Brock Bowers, and the board ranks him 80th overall on the rest of his evidence.
By format he goes standard: ADP 17; 2QB: ADP 32.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Josh Cuevas, and the board ranks him 94th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
The market-based projection for Brock Bowers is 3.2 PPR points a game off 1 market across 5 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a tight end's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
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.
Brock Bowers's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season through Week 8
Through Week 8, Brock Bowers has been on the field for 83 percent of LV snaps, drawn 28 percent of the targets and had 17 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 23 of the offence's 60 third down targets, had 2 of its 21 chances inside the five and seen 6 of its 36 two minute targets.
His 61 targets have averaged 10.0 air yards.
In Week 6 against BUF he caught 4 of 9 targets for 70 yards and did not score.
In Week 7 against LAR he caught 6 of 8 targets for 73 yards and did not score.
In Week 8 against NYJ he caught 7 of 10 targets for 92 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.
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.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Brock Bowers played 12 games and scored 176.2 PPR points, 14.7 a game, finishing TE11.
He caught 64 of 86 targets for 680 yards and 7 touchdowns, with 16 red zone targets.
That came to 7.2 targets a game, a 74 percent catch rate and 10.6 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 85 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Josh Cuevas is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.
Head to head
This season Brock Bowers holds the bigger snap share, 83 percent against 22 percent.
This season Brock Bowers holds the bigger target share, 28 percent against 6 percent.
Byes and availability
Brock Bowers is off in Week 13. No bye is listed for Josh Cuevas.
What would change the answer
Brock Bowers 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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