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Should I start Josh Cuevas or Davis Allen in Week 9?

Updated Nov 3, 8:11 AM ET.

Week 9 verdict

Start

TE · BAL · vs JAX

Market projects
2.7
fantasy pts
JAX D vs TE
11.0
8th fewest to TEs (2026)
Snap share
23%
Through Week 8
Target share
6%
Through Week 8
Sit

TE · LAR · at WAS

Market projects
2.3
recent weeks avg
WAS D vs TE
20.7
2nd most to TEs (2026)
Upside
Rising
82 of 100 at TE
Snap share
49%
Through Week 8
Target share
5%
Through Week 8
Start Cuevas or Allen? The full Week 9 breakdown

Start Josh Cuevas over Davis Allen in Week 9.

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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.

TE13 · BAL · bye unlisted

Market-based projection
2.7 pts a game

TE · LAR · bye unlisted

2026 vs anytime td line 1-7

Overall rank
not on the board

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The gap

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Draft data is not current for these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out. The call above comes from each player's usage.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Josh Cuevas, and the board ranks him 94th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Our board does not carry Davis Allen at all right now: live drafts have stopped taking him and there is no player market on him this week, so he has no rank, no tier and no ADP here.

The market-based projections

Josh Cuevas's market-based projection is 2.7 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 10 market sources. That is the 73rd highest figure of the 183 players with a market-based projection.

No season market is posted for Davis Allen, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.

This season through Week 8

Through Week 8, Josh Cuevas has been on the field for 22 percent of BAL snaps, drawn 6 percent of the targets and had 2 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 66 third down targets, had 1 of its 26 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 47 two minute targets.

His 13 targets have averaged 5.5 air yards.

In Week 6 against CLE he caught 4 of 5 targets for 44 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 7 against CIN he caught 2 of 3 targets for 35 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against BUF he caught 1 of 2 targets for 15 yards and did not score.

Through Week 8, Davis Allen has been on the field for 46 percent of LAR snaps, drawn 5 percent of the targets and had 5 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 4 of the offence's 66 third down targets, had 2 of its 21 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 39 two minute targets.

His 16 targets have averaged 5.3 air yards.

In Week 6 against ARI he carried 1 time for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against LV he caught 4 of 5 targets for 20 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

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

Their 2025 seasons

Josh Cuevas is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.

In 2025 Davis Allen played 17 games and scored 62.8 PPR points, 3.7 a game, finishing TE44.

He caught 24 of 33 targets for 208 yards and 3 touchdowns, with 7 red zone targets.

That came to 1.9 targets a game, a 73 percent catch rate and 8.7 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 50 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Head to head

This season Davis Allen holds the bigger snap share, 46 percent against 22 percent.

This season Josh Cuevas holds the bigger target share, 6 percent against 5 percent.

What would change the answer

Davis Allen has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.

Both players in full

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