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Should I start Ricky Pearsall or Chris Olave in Week 8?

Updated Oct 27, 12:21 PM ET.

Start Chris Olave: he has been on the field this season, 73 percent of the snaps, and Ricky Pearsall has no snap on record yet. 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.

Ricky Pearsall

WR · SF · on bye this week

2025 vs catches line 4-5

Overall rank
228

Chris Olave

WR · NO · on bye this week

2026 vs anytime td line 2-5

Market-based projection
15.4 pts a game Wk 7 price
Overall rank
231

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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 Ricky Pearsall, and the board ranks him 228th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Chris Olave, and the board ranks him 231st overall on the rest of his evidence.

In standard drafts he goes at ADP 9.

The market-based projections

No season market is posted for Ricky Pearsall, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.

No season market is posted for Chris Olave, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.

Neither carries a posted market, so this page rests on the draft room and on what the two have already done.

This season through Week 7

The usage feed holds no snap or target counts for Ricky Pearsall this season.

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.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Ricky Pearsall played 9 games and scored 88.6 PPR points, 9.8 a game, finishing WR72.

He caught 36 of 53 targets for 528 yards and 0 touchdowns, with 4 red zone targets.

That came to 5.9 targets a game, a 68 percent catch rate and 14.7 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 70 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

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.

Chris Olave was available for 7 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Chris Olave scored 16.8 PPR points a game and Ricky Pearsall 9.8, 7.0 a game between them.

Ricky Pearsall finished WR72 that year and Chris Olave WR6.

Chris Olave had 103 more targets than Ricky Pearsall, 156 to 53.

Chris Olave had 635 more receiving yards than Ricky Pearsall, 1163 to 528.

Byes and availability

Both are off in Week 8, so a roster holding the pair has that one week to cover twice.

Ricky Pearsall is listed as ir on the injury report.

Both players in full

Week 8 on the board

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