Should I start Jakobi Meyers or Denzel Boston in Week 9?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jakobi Meyers, and the board ranks him 38th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Denzel Boston, and the board ranks him 134th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Jakobi Meyers's market-based projection is 9.0 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 11 market sources. That is the 22nd highest figure of the 175 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Denzel Boston is 2.0 PPR points a game off 1 market across 5 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.

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

This season through Week 8

Through Week 8, Jakobi Meyers has been on the field for 80 percent of JAX snaps, drawn 16 percent of the targets and had 11 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 9 of the offence's 48 third down targets, had 3 of its 16 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 23 two minute targets.

His 31 targets have averaged 10.5 air yards.

In Week 5 against PHI he caught 2 of 3 targets for 37 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against HOU he caught 5 of 10 targets for 83 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against IND he caught 2 of 3 targets for 24 yards and did not score.

Through Week 8, Denzel Boston has been on the field for 91 percent of CLE snaps, drawn 21 percent of the targets and had 16 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 17 of the offence's 63 third down targets, had 2 of its 14 chances inside the five and seen 10 of its 47 two minute targets.

His 53 targets have averaged 15.1 air yards.

In Week 6 against BAL he caught 1 of 5 targets for 15 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against TEN he caught 3 of 8 targets for 27 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against PIT he caught 6 of 11 targets for 37 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Jakobi Meyers played 16 games and scored 175.8 PPR points, 11.0 a game, finishing WR32.

He caught 75 of 110 targets for 835 yards and 3 touchdowns, with 13 red zone targets.

That came to 6.9 targets a game, a 68 percent catch rate and 11.1 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 85 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Denzel Boston is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.

Head to head

This season Denzel Boston holds the bigger snap share, 91 percent against 80 percent.

This season Denzel Boston holds the bigger target share, 21 percent against 16 percent.

Byes and availability

Jakobi Meyers is off in Week 7 and Denzel Boston in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.

Jakobi Meyers is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

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