Should I start CeeDee Lamb or Dohnte Meyers in Week 9?
Updated Nov 4, 5:36 AM ET. Week 10 answers post Tuesday.
Start CeeDee Lamb: 82 percent of the snaps and 38 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Dohnte Meyers's 43 percent of the snaps and 7 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.
WR36 · DAL · bye 14
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- Market-based projection
- 19.9 pts a game Wk 8 price
- Overall rank
- 89
WR38 · CIN · bye unlisted
- Market-based projection
- 4.5 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 CeeDee Lamb, and the board ranks him 89th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Dohnte Meyers, and the board ranks him 94th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
The market-based projection for CeeDee Lamb is 4.7 PPR points a game off 1 market across 8 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.
Dohnte Meyers's market-based projection is 4.5 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.
CeeDee Lamb's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season through Week 8
Through Week 8, CeeDee Lamb has been on the field for 79 percent of DAL snaps, drawn 31 percent of the targets and had 16 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 25 of the offence's 69 third down targets, had 3 of its 31 chances inside the five and seen 16 of its 50 two minute targets.
His 92 targets have averaged 9.9 air yards.
In Week 6 against GB he caught 9 of 18 targets for 70 yards and did not score.
In Week 7 against PHI he caught 5 of 12 targets for 74 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.
In Week 8 against ARI he caught 7 of 11 targets for 58 yards and did not score.
Through Week 8, Dohnte Meyers has been on the field for 45 percent of CIN snaps, drawn 9 percent of the targets and had 3 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 6 of the offence's 61 third down targets, had 1 of its 17 chances inside the five and seen 5 of its 43 two minute targets.
His 23 targets have averaged 5.3 air yards.
In Week 5 against MIA he caught 2 of 2 targets for 12 yards and did not score.
In Week 7 against BAL he caught 0 of 2 targets for 0 yards and did not score.
In Week 8 against TEN he caught 3 of 3 targets for 34 yards and did not score.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 CeeDee Lamb played 14 games and scored 200.9 PPR points, 14.4 a game, finishing WR22.
He caught 75 of 117 targets for 1077 yards and 3 touchdowns, with 17 red zone targets.
That came to 8.4 targets a game, a 64 percent catch rate and 14.4 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 75 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Dohnte Meyers is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.
Head to head
This season CeeDee Lamb holds the bigger snap share, 79 percent against 45 percent.
This season CeeDee Lamb holds the bigger target share, 31 percent against 9 percent.
Byes and availability
CeeDee Lamb is off in Week 14. No bye is listed for Dohnte Meyers.
What would change the answer
CeeDee Lamb has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.
Both players in full
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