Should I start Chris Olave or Elijah Higgins in Week 9?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Chris Olave, and the board ranks him 145th overall on the rest of his evidence.

In standard drafts he goes at ADP 9.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Elijah Higgins, and the board ranks him 146th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Chris Olave is 2.8 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.

Elijah Higgins's market-based projection is 4.8 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 8 market sources. That is the 109th highest figure of the 220 players with a market-based projection.

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

This season so far

Through Week 7, Chris Olave has been on the field for 81 percent of NO snaps, drawn 27 percent of the targets and had 12 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 19 of the offence's 68 third down targets, had 1 of its 23 chances inside the five and seen 8 of its 38 two minute targets.

His 71 targets have averaged 12.3 air yards.

In Week 5 against MIN he caught 4 of 6 targets for 46 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against NYG he caught 4 of 7 targets for 43 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 7 against PIT he caught 6 of 10 targets for 56 yards and did not score.

Through Week 8, Elijah Higgins has been on the field for 39 percent of ARI snaps, drawn 6 percent of the targets and had 2 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 88 third down targets, had 1 of its 29 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 57 two minute targets.

His 18 targets have averaged 2.7 air yards.

In Week 6 against LAR he caught 3 of 3 targets for 28 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against DEN he caught 3 of 3 targets for 17 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against DAL he caught 2 of 4 targets for 10 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Chris Olave played 16 games and scored 269.0 PPR points, 16.8 a game, finishing WR6.

He caught 100 of 156 targets for 1163 yards and 9 touchdowns, with 13 red zone targets.

That came to 9.8 targets a game, a 64 percent catch rate and 11.6 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 84 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Elijah Higgins played 17 games and scored 58.1 PPR points, 3.4 a game, finishing TE48.

He caught 30 of 37 targets for 301 yards and 0 touchdowns, with 4 red zone targets.

That came to 2.2 targets a game, a 81 percent catch rate and 10.0 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 41 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Elijah Higgins was available for 1 game more.

Side by side

In 2025 Chris Olave scored 16.8 PPR points a game and Elijah Higgins 3.4, 13.4 a game between them.

Chris Olave finished WR6 and Elijah Higgins TE48, which are two different ladders.

Chris Olave is a wide receiver and Elijah Higgins a tight end, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Chris Olave is off in Week 8. No bye is listed for Elijah Higgins.

What would change the answer

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