Should I start Dohnte Meyers or Jalen Nailor 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 Jalen Nailor, and the board ranks him 190th 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 Jalen Nailor is 1.2 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.

Jalen Nailor'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, Jalen Nailor has been on the field for 54 percent of LV snaps, drawn 10 percent of the targets and had 5 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 10 of the offence's 66 third down targets, had 1 of its 23 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 42 two minute targets.

His 24 targets have averaged 11.7 air yards.

In Week 6 against BUF he caught 1 of 4 targets for 9 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against LAR he caught 2 of 5 targets for 14 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against NYJ he caught 4 of 4 targets for 38 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Their 2025 seasons

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

In 2025 Jalen Nailor played 17 games and scored 100.7 PPR points, 5.9 a game, finishing WR61.

He caught 29 of 53 targets for 444 yards and 4 touchdowns, with 11 red zone targets.

That came to 3.1 targets a game, a 55 percent catch rate and 15.3 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 65 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Head to head

This season Jalen Nailor holds the bigger snap share, 54 percent against 45 percent.

This season Jalen Nailor holds the bigger target share, 10 percent against 9 percent.

Byes and availability

Jalen Nailor is off in Week 13. No bye is listed for Dohnte Meyers.

What would change the answer

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