Should I start Elijah Mitchell or Darren Waller in Week 9?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Elijah Mitchell, and the board ranks him 139th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Darren Waller, and the board ranks him 140th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Elijah Mitchell is 1.5 PPR points a game off 1 market across 5 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Darren Waller's market-based projection is 4.7 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 117th highest figure of the 223 players with a market-based projection.

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

This season through Week 8

Through Week 8, Elijah Mitchell has been on the field for 30 percent of PHI snaps, taken 26 percent of the carries, drawn 15 percent of the targets and had 13 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 4 of the offence's 20 third down targets, had 0 of its 5 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 17 two minute targets.

His 10 targets have come 4.0 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 7 against DAL he carried 3 times for 11 yards, caught 3 of 4 targets for 23 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against WAS he carried 11 times for 34 yards, caught 4 of 6 targets for 3 yards and did not score.

Through Week 8, Darren Waller has been on the field for 48 percent of CAR snaps, drawn 10 percent of the targets and had 6 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 9 of the offence's 53 third down targets, had 0 of its 13 chances inside the five and seen 7 of its 34 two minute targets.

His 25 targets have averaged 9.4 air yards.

In Week 6 against PHI he caught 0 of 2 targets for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against TB he caught 1 of 2 targets for 50 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 8 against GB he caught 1 of 2 targets for 11 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Elijah Mitchell played 1 game, finishing RB149.

He carried 0 times for 0 yards and 0 touchdowns, and caught 0 of 1 target for 0 more yards.

He was on the field for 10 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Darren Waller played 9 games and scored 88.7 PPR points, 9.9 a game, finishing TE33.

He caught 24 of 34 targets for 283 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 7 red zone targets.

That came to 3.8 targets a game, a 71 percent catch rate and 11.8 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 45 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Darren Waller was available for 8 games more.

Side by side

Elijah Mitchell finished RB149 and Darren Waller TE33, which are two different ladders.

Elijah Mitchell is a running back and Darren Waller a tight end, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Elijah Mitchell is off in Week 10 and Darren Waller in Week 5, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

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