Mike Evans or D'Andre Swift: who should I start in Week 3?

What the sportsbooks price

The player markets price Mike Evans at 12.7 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 16 books. That is the 61st highest figure of the 170 players the books price.

The player markets price D'Andre Swift at 12.5 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 16 books. That is the 66th highest figure of the 170 players the books price.

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Mike Evans: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 43rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 76.

Drafters have formed no consensus on D'Andre Swift: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 44th overall on the rest of his evidence.

By format he goes standard: ADP 13; 2QB: ADP 59.

This season through Week 2

Through Week 2, Mike Evans has been on the field for 66 percent of SF snaps, drawn 18 percent of the targets and had 9 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 7 of the offence's 15 third down targets, had 1 of its 8 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 3 two minute targets.

His 10 targets have averaged 9.5 air yards.

In Week 1 against LAR he caught 6 of 7 targets for 49 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 2 against MIA he caught 3 of 3 targets for 54 yards and did not score.

Through Week 2, D'Andre Swift has been on the field for 62 percent of CHI snaps, taken 49 percent of the carries, drawn 11 percent of the targets and had 36 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 17 third down targets, had 4 of its 6 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 13 two minute targets.

His 6 targets have come 1.8 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 1 against CAR he carried 18 times for 124 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 10 yards and scored 3 touchdowns.

In Week 2 against MIN he carried 16 times for 45 yards, caught 5 of 5 targets for 54 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Mike Evans played 8 games and scored 84.8 PPR points, 10.6 a game, finishing WR76.

He caught 30 of 61 targets for 368 yards and 3 touchdowns, with 8 red zone targets.

That came to 7.6 targets a game, a 49 percent catch rate and 12.3 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 65 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 D'Andre Swift played 16 games and scored 228.6 PPR points, 14.3 a game, finishing RB15.

He carried 223 times for 1087 yards and 9 touchdowns, and caught 34 of 48 targets for 299 more yards.

That came to 13.9 carries a game at 4.9 yards a carry and 2.1 catches a game.

He was on the field for 58 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

D'Andre Swift was available for 8 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 D'Andre Swift scored 14.3 PPR points a game and Mike Evans 10.6, 3.7 a game between them.

Mike Evans finished WR76 and D'Andre Swift RB15, which are two different ladders.

Mike Evans is a wide receiver and D'Andre Swift a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Mike Evans is off in Week 8 and D'Andre Swift in Week 10, so either can cover the other's bye.

Mike Evans is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

0.2 points a game is the entire case. The books restate it every week, and a line that moves moves the order with it.

The draft market is the half that is missing: when the consensus sample holds these two again it can order them differently from the price, and this page will follow the sample rather than the books when it does.