Should I start Dohnte Meyers or Deebo Samuel Sr. in Week 9?
Updated Nov 4, 4:36 PM ET. Week 10 answers post Tuesday.
Start Deebo Samuel Sr.: 62 percent of the snaps and 11 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Dohnte Meyers's 43 percent of the snaps and 7 percent of the targets. No market projection is posted on either of them this week, so this is a usage call, and a lower confidence one than a call made on a projection. What follows is what each of them has done.
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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.
WR47 · CIN · bye unlisted
- Market-based projection
- 4.4 pts a game
WR48 · SF · bye 8
2026 vs anytime td line 3-2
- Overall rank
- 149
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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 Dohnte Meyers, and the board ranks him 146th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Deebo Samuel Sr., and the board ranks him 149th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
Dohnte Meyers's market-based projection is 4.4 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 133rd highest figure of the 226 players with a market-based projection.
The market has Deebo Samuel Sr. at 4.2 PPR points a game off 1 market across 8 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a wide receiver's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
Deebo Samuel Sr.'s projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season so far
Through Week 8, Dohnte Meyers has been on the field for 45 percent of CIN snaps, drawn 9 percent of the targets and had 3 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 6 of the offence's 61 third down targets, had 1 of its 17 chances inside the five and seen 5 of its 43 two minute targets.
His 23 targets have averaged 5.3 air yards.
In Week 5 against MIA he caught 2 of 2 targets for 12 yards and did not score.
In Week 7 against BAL he caught 0 of 2 targets for 0 yards and did not score.
In Week 8 against TEN he caught 3 of 3 targets for 34 yards and did not score.
Through Week 5, Deebo Samuel Sr. has been on the field for 57 percent of SF snaps, drawn 15 percent of the targets and had 10 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 2 of the offence's 35 third down targets, had 2 of its 14 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 21 two minute targets.
His 20 targets have averaged 2.6 air yards.
In Week 3 against ARI he carried 2 times for 14 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against DEN he carried 3 times for 44 yards, caught 5 of 6 targets for 26 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 5 against SEA he carried 2 times for 4 yards, caught 2 of 3 targets for 21 yards and did not score.
Their 2025 seasons
Dohnte Meyers is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.
In 2025 Deebo Samuel Sr. played 16 games and scored 188.2 PPR points, 11.8 a game, finishing WR25.
He caught 72 of 99 targets for 727 yards and 5 touchdowns, with 11 red zone targets.
That came to 6.2 targets a game, a 73 percent catch rate and 10.1 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 72 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Head to head
This season Deebo Samuel Sr. holds the bigger snap share, 57 percent against 45 percent.
This season Deebo Samuel Sr. holds the bigger target share, 15 percent against 9 percent.
Byes and availability
Deebo Samuel Sr. is off in Week 8. No bye is listed for Dohnte Meyers.
Deebo Samuel Sr. is listed as questionable on the injury report.
What would change the answer
Deebo Samuel Sr. has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.
Both players in full
Week 9 on the board
- Is Dohnte Meyers playing Week 9?
- Is Deebo Samuel Sr. playing Week 9?
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- Week 9 fantasy rankings
- Week 9 start or sit
- Week 9 waiver wire
- Week 9 trade value chart
- Trade deadline buy low, sell high
- Fantasy football rankings
- Start 'em sit 'em Week 9
- Waiver wire pickups
- Fantasy sleepers
- Rest of season rankings
- Week 9 kicker rankings
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