Should I start Dohnte Meyers or Kayshon Boutte in Week 9?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Dohnte Meyers, and the board ranks him 94th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Kayshon Boutte, and the board ranks him 178th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Dohnte Meyers's market-based projection is 4.5 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 106th highest figure of the 219 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Kayshon Boutte is 0.7 PPR points a game off 1 market across 8 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.

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

This season so far

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 7, Kayshon Boutte has been on the field for 54 percent of HOU snaps, drawn 10 percent of the targets and had 5 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 54 third down targets, had 0 of its 14 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 41 two minute targets.

His 23 targets have averaged 12.2 air yards.

In Week 5 against TEN he caught 3 of 5 targets for 38 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against JAX he caught 2 of 3 targets for 16 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against NYG he caught 1 of 2 targets for 25 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 Kayshon Boutte played 14 games and scored 124.1 PPR points, 8.9 a game, finishing WR51.

He caught 33 of 46 targets for 551 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 4 red zone targets.

That came to 3.3 targets a game, a 72 percent catch rate and 16.7 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 68 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Head to head

This season Kayshon Boutte holds the bigger snap share, 54 percent against 45 percent.

This season Kayshon Boutte holds the bigger target share, 10 percent against 9 percent.

Byes and availability

Kayshon Boutte is off in Week 8. No bye is listed for Dohnte Meyers.

What would change the answer

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