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Should I start Marvin Harrison Jr. or Chris Godwin Jr. in Week 9?

Updated Nov 3, 3:21 PM ET.

Start Chris Godwin Jr.: 77 percent of the snaps and 43 percent of the targets over their last 2 games, against Marvin Harrison Jr.'s 21 percent of the snaps and 14 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.

WR20 · HOU · bye 8

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Market-based projection
6.9 pts a game

WR64 · TB · bye 10

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Market-based projection
10.6 pts a game Wk 8 price
Overall rank
152

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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 Marvin Harrison Jr., and the board ranks him 39th overall on the rest of his evidence.

By format he goes standard: ADP 19; 2QB: ADP 41.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Chris Godwin Jr., and the board ranks him 152nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

By format he goes standard: ADP 21; 2QB: ADP 45.

The market-based projections

Marvin Harrison Jr.'s market-based projection is 6.9 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 7 market sources. That is the 49th highest figure of the 213 players with a market-based projection.

The market has Chris Godwin Jr. at 1.7 PPR points a game off 1 market across 7 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.

Chris Godwin Jr.'s projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season so far

Through Week 7, Marvin Harrison Jr. has been on the field for 21 percent of HOU snaps, drawn 14 percent of the targets and had 13 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 8 third down targets, had 0 of its 4 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 6 two minute targets.

His 4 targets have averaged 20.5 air yards.

In Week 7 against NYG he caught 1 of 4 targets for 6 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Through Week 8, Chris Godwin Jr. has been on the field for 77 percent of TB snaps, drawn 43 percent of the targets and had 13 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 3 of the offence's 7 third down targets, had 0 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 3 two minute targets.

His 6 targets have averaged 1.3 air yards.

In Week 7 against CAR he caught 4 of 5 targets for 27 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against ATL he caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Marvin Harrison Jr. played 12 games and scored 127.8 PPR points, 10.7 a game, finishing WR49.

He caught 41 of 73 targets for 608 yards and 4 touchdowns, with 9 red zone targets.

That came to 6.1 targets a game, a 56 percent catch rate and 14.8 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 72 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Chris Godwin Jr. played 9 games and scored 83.0 PPR points, 9.2 a game, finishing WR78.

He caught 33 of 51 targets for 360 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 7 red zone targets.

That came to 5.7 targets a game, a 65 percent catch rate and 10.9 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 71 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Marvin Harrison Jr. was available for 3 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Marvin Harrison Jr. scored 10.7 PPR points a game and Chris Godwin Jr. 9.2, 1.4 a game between them.

Marvin Harrison Jr. finished WR49 that year and Chris Godwin Jr. WR78.

Marvin Harrison Jr. had 22 more targets than Chris Godwin Jr., 73 to 51.

Marvin Harrison Jr. had 248 more receiving yards than Chris Godwin Jr., 608 to 360.

This season Chris Godwin Jr. holds the bigger snap share, 77 percent against 21 percent.

This season Chris Godwin Jr. holds the bigger target share, 43 percent against 14 percent.

Byes and availability

Marvin Harrison Jr. is off in Week 8 and Chris Godwin Jr. in Week 10, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

Chris Godwin Jr. has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.

Should I drop Chris Godwin Jr.?

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