Should I start Chuba Hubbard or Tee Higgins in Week 8?

The market-based projections

Chuba Hubbard's market-based projection is 15.3 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 24th highest figure of the 200 players with a market-based projection.

Tee Higgins's market-based projection is 14.1 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 11 market sources. That is the 31st highest figure of the 200 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Chuba Hubbard, and the board ranks him 13th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Tee Higgins, and the board ranks him 18th overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season through Week 7

Through Week 7, Chuba Hubbard has been on the field for 78 percent of CAR snaps, taken 68 percent of the carries, drawn 9 percent of the targets and had 31 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 3 of the offence's 43 third down targets, had 6 of its 12 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 30 two minute targets.

His 18 targets have come 1.4 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 4 against DET he carried 20 times for 122 yards, caught 1 of 2 targets for 7 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

In Week 6 against PHI he carried 28 times for 120 yards, caught 1 of 2 targets for 1 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 7 against TB he carried 7 times for 33 yards, caught 4 of 5 targets for 27 yards and did not score.

Through Week 7, Tee Higgins has been on the field for 78 percent of CIN snaps, drawn 23 percent of the targets and had 5 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 12 of the offence's 53 third down targets, had 0 of its 15 chances inside the five and seen 7 of its 36 two minute targets.

His 50 targets have averaged 14.2 air yards.

In Week 4 against JAX he caught 11 of 16 targets for 157 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against MIA he caught 2 of 4 targets for 22 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against BAL he caught 6 of 7 targets for 148 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Chuba Hubbard played 15 games and scored 125.4 PPR points, 8.4 a game, finishing RB38.

He carried 134 times for 511 yards and 1 touchdown, and caught 30 of 39 targets for 223 more yards.

That came to 8.9 carries a game at 3.8 yards a carry and 2.0 catches a game.

He was on the field for 47 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Tee Higgins played 15 games and scored 211.6 PPR points, 14.1 a game, finishing WR15.

He caught 59 of 98 targets for 846 yards and 11 touchdowns, with 14 red zone targets.

That came to 6-7 targets a game, a 60 percent catch rate and 14.3 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 80 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Both were available for 15 games that season.

Side by side

In 2025 Tee Higgins scored 14.1 PPR points a game and Chuba Hubbard 8.4, 5.7 a game between them.

Chuba Hubbard finished RB38 and Tee Higgins WR15, which are two different ladders.

Chuba Hubbard is a running back and Tee Higgins a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Chuba Hubbard is off in Week 5 and Tee Higgins in Week 6, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

1.2 points a game is the entire case. The market restates it every week, and a line that moves moves the order with it.

The draft market is the half that is missing: when live drafts hold these two again they can order them differently from the projection, and this page will follow the drafts rather than the market-based projection when they do.