Should I start Dohnte Meyers or Rashod Bateman in Week 10?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Dohnte Meyers, and the board ranks him 40th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Rashod Bateman, and the board ranks him 136th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Dohnte Meyers's market-based projection is 6.0 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 11 market sources. That is the 40th highest figure of the 209 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Rashod Bateman 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.

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

This season through Week 9

Through Week 9, 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 68 third down targets, had 1 of its 20 chances inside the five and seen 7 of its 47 two minute targets.

His 26 targets have averaged 5.8 air yards.

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.

In Week 9 against ATL he carried 1 time for 16 yards, caught 2 of 3 targets for 47 yards and did not score.

Through Week 9, Rashod Bateman has been on the field for 70 percent of BAL snaps, drawn 13 percent of the targets and had 4 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 6 of the offence's 72 third down targets, had 1 of its 26 chances inside the five and seen 9 of its 49 two minute targets.

His 31 targets have averaged 13.2 air yards.

In Week 7 against CIN he caught 2 of 4 targets for 33 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against BUF he caught 1 of 3 targets for 22 yards and did not score.

In Week 9 against JAX he caught 1 of 2 targets for 6 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 Rashod Bateman played 13 games and scored 55.4 PPR points, 4.3 a game, finishing WR102.

He caught 19 of 38 targets for 224 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 8 red zone targets.

That came to 2.9 targets a game, a 50 percent catch rate and 11.8 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 69 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Head to head

This season Rashod Bateman holds the bigger snap share, 70 percent against 45 percent.

This season Rashod Bateman holds the bigger target share, 13 percent against 9 percent.

Byes and availability

Rashod Bateman is off in Week 13. No bye is listed for Dohnte Meyers.

What would change the answer

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