Should I start Dohnte Meyers or Elijah Mitchell in Week 9?
Updated Nov 4, 6:21 PM ET. Week 10 answers post Tuesday.
Start Dohnte Meyers: 43 percent of the snaps and 7 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Elijah Mitchell's 30 percent of the snaps and 26 percent of the carries. 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.
WR48 · CIN · bye unlisted
- Market-based projection
- 4.4 pts a game
RB53 · PHI · bye 10
- Overall rank
- 170
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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 137th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Elijah Mitchell, and the board ranks him 170th 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 136th highest figure of the 225 players with a market-based projection.
The market-based projection for Elijah Mitchell is 1.5 PPR points a game off 1 market across 8 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
Elijah Mitchell's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season through Week 8
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 8, Elijah Mitchell has been on the field for 30 percent of PHI snaps, taken 26 percent of the carries, drawn 15 percent of the targets and had 13 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 4 of the offence's 20 third down targets, had 0 of its 5 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 17 two minute targets.
His 10 targets have come 4.0 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.
In Week 7 against DAL he carried 3 times for 11 yards, caught 3 of 4 targets for 23 yards and did not score.
In Week 8 against WAS he carried 11 times for 34 yards, caught 4 of 6 targets for 3 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 Elijah Mitchell played 1 game, finishing RB149.
He carried 0 times for 0 yards and 0 touchdowns, and caught 0 of 1 target for 0 more yards.
He was on the field for 10 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Side by side
Dohnte Meyers is a wide receiver and Elijah Mitchell a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.
Byes and availability
Elijah Mitchell is off in Week 10. No bye is listed for Dohnte Meyers.
What would change the answer
Elijah Mitchell 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
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