Should I start Josh Cuevas or Drew Sample in Week 10?

The market-based projections

Josh Cuevas's market-based projection is 3.0 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 8 market sources. That is the 141st highest figure of the 213 players with a market-based projection.

Drew Sample's market-based projection is 2.8 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 11 market sources. That is the 146th highest figure of the 213 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Josh Cuevas, and the board ranks him 173rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Drew Sample, and the board ranks him 179th overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season through Week 9

Through Week 9, Josh Cuevas has been on the field for 22 percent of BAL snaps, drawn 5 percent of the targets and had 2 percent of the red zone chances.

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

His 13 targets have averaged 5.5 air yards.

In Week 7 against CIN he caught 2 of 3 targets for 35 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against BUF he caught 1 of 2 targets for 15 yards and did not score.

In Week 9 against JAX he was not given the ball.

Through Week 9, Drew Sample has been on the field for 51 percent of CIN snaps, drawn 3 percent of the targets and had 3 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 68 third down targets, had 0 of its 20 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 47 two minute targets.

His 8 targets have averaged 0.9 air yards.

In Week 7 against BAL he caught 2 of 2 targets for 24 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

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

In Week 9 against ATL he was not given the ball.

Their 2025 seasons

Josh Cuevas is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.

In 2025 Drew Sample played 17 games and scored 31.9 PPR points, 1.9 a game, finishing TE64.

He caught 15 of 20 targets for 106 yards and 1 touchdown, with 1 red zone target.

That came to 1.2 targets a game, a 75 percent catch rate and 7.1 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 52 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Head to head

This season Drew Sample holds the bigger snap share, 51 percent against 22 percent.

This season Josh Cuevas holds the bigger target share, 5 percent against 3 percent.

What would change the answer

0.2 points a game is the entire case. The market restates it every week, and a line that moves moves the order with it.

The draft market is the half that is missing: when live drafts hold these two again they can order them differently from the projection, and this page will follow the drafts rather than the market-based projection when they do.