Should I start Marvin Harrison Jr. or Dontayvion Wicks in Week 9?
Updated Nov 3, 4:21 PM ET. Week 10 answers post Tuesday.
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Start Dontayvion Wicks: 79 percent of the snaps and 16 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Marvin Harrison Jr.'s 21 percent of the snaps and 14 percent of the targets. No market projection is posted on either of them this week, so this is a usage call, and a lower confidence one than a call made on a projection. What follows is what each of them has done.
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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.
WR20 · HOU · bye 8
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- Market-based projection
- 6.9 pts a game
WR66 · PHI · bye 10
2026 vs anytime td line 1-5
- Overall rank
- 157
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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 Marvin Harrison Jr., and the board ranks him 39th overall on the rest of his evidence.
By format he goes standard: ADP 19; 2QB: ADP 41.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Dontayvion Wicks, and the board ranks him 157th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
Marvin Harrison Jr.'s market-based projection is 6.9 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 7 market sources. That is the 49th highest figure of the 213 players with a market-based projection.
The market-based projection for Dontayvion Wicks is 1.5 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.
Dontayvion Wicks's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season so far
Through Week 7, Marvin Harrison Jr. has been on the field for 21 percent of HOU snaps, drawn 14 percent of the targets and had 13 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 2 of the offence's 8 third down targets, had 0 of its 4 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 6 two minute targets.
His 4 targets have averaged 20.5 air yards.
In Week 7 against NYG he caught 1 of 4 targets for 6 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
Through Week 6, Dontayvion Wicks has been on the field for 79 percent of PHI snaps, drawn 17 percent of the targets and had 9 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 16 of the offence's 58 third down targets, had 1 of its 12 chances inside the five and seen 7 of its 29 two minute targets.
His 32 targets have averaged 13.1 air yards.
In Week 4 against LAR he caught 3 of 5 targets for 18 yards and did not score.
In Week 5 against JAX he caught 5 of 8 targets for 63 yards and did not score.
In Week 6 against CAR he caught 2 of 4 targets for 24 yards and did not score.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Marvin Harrison Jr. played 12 games and scored 127.8 PPR points, 10.7 a game, finishing WR49.
He caught 41 of 73 targets for 608 yards and 4 touchdowns, with 9 red zone targets.
That came to 6.1 targets a game, a 56 percent catch rate and 14.8 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 72 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
In 2025 Dontayvion Wicks played 14 games and scored 75.8 PPR points, 5.4 a game, finishing WR83.
He caught 30 of 46 targets for 332 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 4 red zone targets.
That came to 3.3 targets a game, a 65 percent catch rate and 11.1 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 47 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Dontayvion Wicks was available for 2 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 Marvin Harrison Jr. scored 10.7 PPR points a game and Dontayvion Wicks 5.4, 5.2 a game between them.
Marvin Harrison Jr. finished WR49 that year and Dontayvion Wicks WR83.
Marvin Harrison Jr. had 27 more targets than Dontayvion Wicks, 73 to 46.
Marvin Harrison Jr. had 276 more receiving yards than Dontayvion Wicks, 608 to 332.
This season Dontayvion Wicks holds the bigger snap share, 79 percent against 21 percent.
This season Dontayvion Wicks holds the bigger target share, 17 percent against 14 percent.
Byes and availability
Marvin Harrison Jr. is off in Week 8 and Dontayvion Wicks in Week 10, so either can cover the other's bye.
Dontayvion Wicks is listed as out on the injury report.
What would change the answer
Dontayvion Wicks has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.
Both players in full
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