Tee Higgins or Darnell Mooney: who should I start in Week 5?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Tee Higgins: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 150th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Darnell Mooney: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 153rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

What the player markets price

The market has Tee Higgins at 4.5 PPR points a game off 1 market across 3 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a wide receiver's price needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

The player markets price Darnell Mooney at 4.4 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 15 market sources. That is the 154th highest figure of the 183 players the market prices.

Tee Higgins's price is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season through Week 4

Through Week 4, Tee Higgins has been on the field for 79 percent of CIN snaps, drawn 25 percent of the targets and had 6 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 9 of the offence's 37 third down targets, had 0 of its 8 chances inside the five and seen 7 of its 31 two minute targets.

His 39 targets have averaged 13.4 air yards.

In Week 2 against HOU he caught 5 of 10 targets for 95 yards and did not score.

In Week 3 against PIT he caught 6 of 7 targets for 90 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

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

Through Week 4, Darnell Mooney has been on the field for 57 percent of NYG snaps, drawn 9 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 5 of the offence's 39 third down targets, had 0 of its 5 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 15 two minute targets.

His 10 targets have averaged 11.6 air yards.

In Week 2 against LAR he caught 2 of 3 targets for 48 yards and did not score.

In Week 3 against TEN he carried 1 time for 9 yards, caught 2 of 3 targets for 20 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against ARI he caught 0 of 2 targets for 0 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

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 6.5 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.

In 2025 Darnell Mooney played 15 games and scored 82.3 PPR points, 5.5 a game, finishing WR79.

He caught 32 of 72 targets for 443 yards and 1 touchdown, with 7 red zone targets.

That came to 4.8 targets a game, a 44 percent catch rate and 13.8 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 82 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Both were available for 15 games that season.

Head to head

In 2025 Tee Higgins scored 14.1 PPR points a game and Darnell Mooney 5.5, 8.6 a game between them.

Tee Higgins finished WR15 that year and Darnell Mooney WR79.

Tee Higgins had 26 more targets than Darnell Mooney, 98 to 72.

Tee Higgins had 403 more receiving yards than Darnell Mooney, 846 to 443.

This season Tee Higgins holds the bigger snap share, 79 percent against 57 percent.

This season Tee Higgins holds the bigger target share, 25 percent against 9 percent.

Byes and availability

Tee Higgins is off in Week 6. No bye is listed for Darnell Mooney.

Tee Higgins is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

Tee Higgins is only part priced, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.