Should I start Josh Cuevas or DJ Moore in Week 9?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Josh Cuevas, and the board ranks him 108th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on DJ Moore, and the board ranks him 109th overall on the rest of his evidence.

By format he goes standard: ADP 16; 2QB: ADP 37.

The market-based projections

Josh Cuevas's market-based projection is 2.6 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 109th highest figure of the 213 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for DJ Moore is 2.6 PPR points a game off 1 market across 6 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.

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

This season through Week 8

Through Week 8, Josh Cuevas has been on the field for 23 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, DJ Moore has been on the field for 55 percent of BUF snaps, drawn 19 percent of the targets and had 11 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 11 of the offence's 38 third down targets, had 1 of its 20 chances inside the five and seen 7 of its 24 two minute targets.

His 27 targets have averaged 15.0 air yards.

In Week 3 against LAC he caught 6 of 10 targets for 67 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against NE he carried 1 time for 6 yards, caught 1 of 2 targets for 11 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against BAL he carried 1 time for 4 yards, caught 4 of 7 targets for 82 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Their 2025 seasons

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

In 2025 DJ Moore played 17 games and scored 170.2 PPR points, 10.0 a game, finishing WR35.

He caught 50 of 85 targets for 682 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 11 red zone targets.

That came to 5.0 targets a game, a 59 percent catch rate and 13.6 yards a catch.

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

Side by side

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

Byes and availability

DJ Moore is off in Week 7. No bye is listed for Josh Cuevas.

DJ Moore is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

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