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Should I start Dohnte Meyers or Isaac TeSlaa in Week 9?

Updated Nov 3, 12:06 PM ET.

Week 9 verdict

Start

WR · DET · at MIA

Market projects
5.0
recent weeks avg
MIA D vs WR
25.4
3rd fewest to WRs (2026)
Upside
Limited
22 of 100 at WR
Snap share
57%
Through Week 8
Target share
9%
Through Week 8
Sit

WR · CIN · at ATL

Market projects
4.4
fantasy pts
ATL D vs WR
30.1
15th fewest to WRs (2026)
Upside
Moderate
40 of 100 at WR
Snap share
45%
Through Week 8
Target share
9%
Through Week 8
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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.

WR22 · CIN · bye unlisted

Market-based projection
4.4 pts a game

WR70 · DET · bye 6

2026 vs anytime td line 0-7

Market-based projection
4.6 pts a game Wk 8 price
Overall rank
172

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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 58th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Isaac TeSlaa, and the board ranks him 172nd 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 Isaac TeSlaa is 1.4 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 30 percent of what a wide receiver's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Isaac TeSlaa'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, Isaac TeSlaa has been on the field for 57 percent of DET snaps, drawn 9 percent of the targets and had 6 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 4 of the offence's 60 third down targets, had 0 of its 22 chances inside the five and seen 6 of its 30 two minute targets.

His 21 targets have averaged 12.4 air yards.

In Week 5 against ARI he caught 0 of 2 targets for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against GB he caught 1 of 2 targets for 10 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against MIN he was not given the ball.

Their 2025 seasons

Dohnte Meyers is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.

In 2025 Isaac TeSlaa played 17 games and scored 75.9 PPR points, 4.5 a game, finishing WR82.

He caught 16 of 27 targets for 239 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 10 red zone targets.

That came to 1.6 targets a game, a 59 percent catch rate and 14.9 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 38 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Head to head

This season Isaac TeSlaa holds the bigger snap share, 57 percent against 45 percent.

Their target share this season is the same, 9 percent each.

Byes and availability

Isaac TeSlaa is off in Week 6. No bye is listed for Dohnte Meyers.

What would change the answer

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

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