Should I start Kevin Coleman Jr. or Chig Okonkwo in Week 9?
Updated Nov 3, 8:11 AM ET. Week 10 answers post Tuesday.
Start Chig Okonkwo: 68 percent of the snaps and 18 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Kevin Coleman Jr.'s 15 percent of the snaps and 5 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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Neither man carries a season projection right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.
WR69 · MIA · bye 6
2026 vs anytime td line 2-5
- Overall rank
- 149
TE29 · WAS · bye 7
2026 vs anytime td line 0-4
- Market-based projection
- 8.4 pts a game Wk 8 price
- Overall rank
- 150
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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 Kevin Coleman Jr., and the board ranks him 149th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Chig Okonkwo, and the board ranks him 150th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
The market has Kevin Coleman Jr. at 1.4 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 30 percent of what a wide receiver's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
The market-based projection for Chig Okonkwo is 1.4 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 30 percent of what a tight end's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
Kevin Coleman Jr.'s projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season through Week 8
Through Week 8, Kevin Coleman Jr. has been on the field for 15 percent of MIA snaps, drawn 8 percent of the targets and had 6 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 1 of the offence's 16 third down targets, had 0 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 8 two minute targets.
His 4 targets have averaged 12.5 air yards.
In Week 7 against NYJ he caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.
In Week 8 against NE he caught 3 of 3 targets for 46 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
Through Week 8, Chig Okonkwo has been on the field for 65 percent of WAS snaps, drawn 16 percent of the targets and had 3 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 3 of the offence's 42 third down targets, had 0 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 19 two minute targets.
His 24 targets have averaged 7.9 air yards.
In Week 5 against NYG he caught 4 of 6 targets for 60 yards and did not score.
In Week 6 against SF he caught 7 of 7 targets for 69 yards and did not score.
In Week 8 against PHI he caught 2 of 4 targets for 32 yards and did not score.
Their 2025 seasons
Kevin Coleman Jr. is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.
In 2025 Chig Okonkwo played 17 games and scored 124.0 PPR points, 7.3 a game, finishing TE21.
He caught 56 of 79 targets for 560 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 5 red zone targets.
That came to 4.6 targets a game, a 71 percent catch rate and 10.0 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 62 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Side by side
Kevin Coleman Jr. is a wide receiver and Chig Okonkwo a tight end, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.
Byes and availability
Kevin Coleman Jr. is off in Week 6 and Chig Okonkwo in Week 7, so either can cover the other's bye.
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