Should I start Christian Watson or Garrett Wilson in Week 9?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Christian Watson, and the board ranks him 20th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Garrett Wilson, and the board ranks him 107th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Christian Watson's market-based projection is 14.6 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 10 market sources. That is the 14th highest figure of the 175 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Garrett Wilson is 2.5 PPR points a game off 1 market across 5 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.

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

This season through Week 8

Through Week 8, Christian Watson has been on the field for 77 percent of GB snaps, drawn 22 percent of the targets and had 8 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 21 of the offence's 88 third down targets, had 3 of its 21 chances inside the five and seen 6 of its 37 two minute targets.

His 66 targets have averaged 13.4 air yards.

In Week 6 against DAL he caught 3 of 8 targets for 64 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against DET he caught 5 of 8 targets for 57 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against CAR he caught 8 of 10 targets for 113 yards and did not score.

Through Week 8, Garrett Wilson has been on the field for 90 percent of NYJ snaps, drawn 28 percent of the targets and had 10 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 20 of the offence's 61 third down targets, had 2 of its 14 chances inside the five and seen 6 of its 34 two minute targets.

His 63 targets have averaged 10.4 air yards.

In Week 6 against NE he caught 4 of 6 targets for 44 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against MIA he caught 2 of 3 targets for 26 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against LV he caught 6 of 12 targets for 83 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Christian Watson played 10 games and scored 132.4 PPR points, 13.2 a game, finishing WR46.

He caught 35 of 55 targets for 611 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 6 red zone targets.

That came to 5-6 targets a game, a 64 percent catch rate and 18 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 68 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Garrett Wilson played 7 games and scored 99.5 PPR points, 14.2 a game, finishing WR62.

He caught 36 of 59 targets for 395 yards and 4 touchdowns, with 2 red zone targets.

That came to 8.4 targets a game, a 61 percent catch rate and 11.0 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 89 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Christian Watson was available for 3 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Garrett Wilson scored 14.2 PPR points a game and Christian Watson 13.2, 1.0 a game between them.

Christian Watson finished WR46 that year and Garrett Wilson WR62.

Garrett Wilson had 4 more targets than Christian Watson, 59 to 55.

Christian Watson had 216 more receiving yards than Garrett Wilson, 611 to 395.

This season Garrett Wilson holds the bigger snap share, 90 percent against 77 percent.

This season Garrett Wilson holds the bigger target share, 28 percent against 22 percent.

Byes and availability

Christian Watson is off in Week 11 and Garrett Wilson in Week 13, so either can cover the other's bye.

Christian Watson is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

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