Should I start Jayden Higgins or DeVonta Smith in Week 10?
Updated Nov 10, 10:11 AM ET. Week 11 answers post Tuesday.
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Start DeVonta Smith: he has been on the field this season, 84 percent of the snaps, and Jayden Higgins has no snap on record yet. 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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Neither man carries a season projection right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.
WR · HOU · bye 8
2025 vs rec yds line 9-8
- Overall rank
- 226
WR · PHI · on bye this week
2026 vs anytime td line 2-2
- Overall rank
- 229
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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 Jayden Higgins, and the board ranks him 226th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on DeVonta Smith, and the board ranks him 229th overall on the rest of his evidence.
By format he goes standard: ADP 11; 2QB: ADP 28.
The market-based projections
No season market is posted for Jayden Higgins, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
No season market is posted for DeVonta Smith, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
Neither carries a posted market, so this page rests on the draft room and on what the two have already done.
This season through Week 6
The usage feed holds no snap or target counts for Jayden Higgins this season.
Through Week 6, DeVonta Smith has been on the field for 86 percent of PHI snaps, drawn 33 percent of the targets and had 11 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 15 of the offence's 41 third down targets, had 0 of its 8 chances inside the five and seen 10 of its 18 two minute targets.
His 41 targets have averaged 12.2 air yards.
In Week 2 against TEN he caught 10 of 13 targets for 117 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 3 against CHI he caught 6 of 8 targets for 65 yards and did not score.
In Week 6 against CAR he caught 7 of 14 targets for 75 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Jayden Higgins played 17 games and scored 129.5 PPR points, 7.6 a game, finishing WR47.
He caught 41 of 68 targets for 525 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 7 red zone targets.
That came to 4.0 targets a game, a 60 percent catch rate and 12.8 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 56 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
In 2025 DeVonta Smith played 17 games and scored 201.8 PPR points, 11.9 a game, finishing WR20.
He caught 77 of 113 targets for 1008 yards and 4 touchdowns, with 10 red zone targets.
That came to 6.6 targets a game, a 68 percent catch rate and 13.1 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 89 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Both were available for 17 games that season.
Head to head
In 2025 DeVonta Smith scored 11.9 PPR points a game and Jayden Higgins 7.6, 4.3 a game between them.
Jayden Higgins finished WR47 that year and DeVonta Smith WR20.
DeVonta Smith had 45 more targets than Jayden Higgins, 113 to 68.
DeVonta Smith had 483 more receiving yards than Jayden Higgins, 1008 to 525.
Byes and availability
Jayden Higgins is off in Week 8 and DeVonta Smith in Week 10, so either can cover the other's bye.
Jayden Higgins is listed as ir on the injury report.
DeVonta Smith is listed as out on the injury report.
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