Should I start DeMario Douglas or Josh Cuevas in Week 10?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on DeMario Douglas, and the board ranks him 179th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Josh Cuevas, and the board ranks him 180th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for DeMario Douglas is 2.1 PPR points a game off 1 market across 14 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.

Josh Cuevas's market-based projection is 3.0 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 161st highest figure of the 220 players with a market-based projection.

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

This season through Week 9

Through Week 9, DeMario Douglas has been on the field for 57 percent of NE snaps, drawn 17 percent of the targets and had 6 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 14 of the offence's 65 third down targets, had 0 of its 13 chances inside the five and seen 9 of its 35 two minute targets.

His 46 targets have averaged 10.9 air yards.

In Week 7 against CHI he caught 3 of 4 targets for 23 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against MIA he caught 3 of 3 targets for 76 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 9 against GB he caught 5 of 9 targets for 102 yards and did not score.

Through Week 9, Josh Cuevas has been on the field for 22 percent of BAL snaps, drawn 5 percent of the targets and had 2 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 72 third down targets, had 1 of its 26 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 49 two minute targets.

His 13 targets have averaged 5.5 air yards.

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.

In Week 9 against JAX he was not given the ball.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 DeMario Douglas played 17 games and scored 95.8 PPR points, 5.6 a game, finishing WR65.

He caught 31 of 46 targets for 447 yards and 3 touchdowns, with 7 red zone targets.

That came to 2.7 targets a game, a 67 percent catch rate and 14.4 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 26 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

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

Side by side

DeMario Douglas is a wide receiver and Josh Cuevas a tight end, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

DeMario Douglas is off in Week 11. No bye is listed for Josh Cuevas.

What would change the answer

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