Should I start Dohnte Meyers or George Pickens in Week 9?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Dohnte Meyers, and the board ranks him 60th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on George Pickens, and the board ranks him 62nd 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 11 market sources. That is the 59th highest figure of the 212 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for George Pickens is 4.3 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.

George Pickens'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, George Pickens has been on the field for 78 percent of DAL snaps, drawn 21 percent of the targets and had 7 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 23 of the offence's 69 third down targets, had 3 of its 31 chances inside the five and seen 11 of its 50 two minute targets.

His 62 targets have averaged 11.6 air yards.

In Week 6 against GB he caught 6 of 11 targets for 73 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against PHI he caught 4 of 6 targets for 57 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 8 against ARI he caught 2 of 4 targets for 48 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 George Pickens played 17 games and scored 291.9 PPR points, 17.2 a game, finishing WR5.

He caught 93 of 137 targets for 1429 yards and 9 touchdowns, with 21 red zone targets.

That came to 8.1 targets a game, a 68 percent catch rate and 15.4 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 83 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Head to head

This season George Pickens holds the bigger snap share, 78 percent against 45 percent.

This season George Pickens holds the bigger target share, 21 percent against 9 percent.

Byes and availability

George Pickens is off in Week 14. No bye is listed for Dohnte Meyers.

What would change the answer

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