Should I start Elic Ayomanor or Jared Wayne in Week 9?
Updated Nov 3, 6:16 AM ET. Week 10 answers post Tuesday.
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Start Elic Ayomanor: 68 percent of the snaps and 13 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Jared Wayne's 0 percent of the snaps and 11 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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Neither man carries a season projection right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.
WR · TEN · on bye this week
2026 vs anytime td line 1-7
- Market-based projection
- 7.2 pts a game Wk 8 price
- Overall rank
- 284
WR · MIA · bye 6
2026 vs anytime td line 0-5
- Overall rank
- 290
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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 Elic Ayomanor, and the board ranks him 284th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Jared Wayne, and the board ranks him 290th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
No season market is posted for Elic Ayomanor, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
No season market is posted for Jared Wayne, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
Neither carries a posted market, so this page rests on the draft room and on what the two have already done.
This season so far
Through Week 8, Elic Ayomanor has been on the field for 65 percent of TEN snaps, drawn 11 percent of the targets and had 14 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 8 of the offence's 67 third down targets, had 1 of its 17 chances inside the five and seen 6 of its 38 two minute targets.
His 26 targets have averaged 10.5 air yards.
In Week 6 against IND he caught 1 of 2 targets for 3 yards and did not score.
In Week 7 against CLE he caught 3 of 7 targets for 44 yards and did not score.
In Week 8 against CIN he caught 3 of 5 targets for 34 yards and did not score.
Through Week 3, Jared Wayne has been on the field for 0 percent of HOU snaps, drawn 11 percent of the targets and had 5 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 4 of the offence's 27 third down targets, had 0 of its 5 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 26 two minute targets.
His 12 targets have averaged 15.4 air yards.
In Week 1 against BUF he caught 1 of 1 target for 12 yards and did not score.
In Week 2 against CIN he caught 2 of 7 targets for 33 yards and did not score.
In Week 3 against IND he caught 1 of 4 targets for 20 yards and did not score.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Elic Ayomanor played 16 games and scored 116.5 PPR points, 7.3 a game, finishing WR55.
He caught 41 of 89 targets for 515 yards and 4 touchdowns, with 8 red zone targets.
That came to 5.6 targets a game, a 46 percent catch rate and 12.6 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 79 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
In 2025 Jared Wayne played 1 game and scored 4.0 PPR points, 4.0 a game.
He caught 2 of 2 targets for 20 yards and 0 touchdowns, with 0 red zone targets.
That came to 2.0 targets a game, a 100 percent catch rate and 10.0 yards a catch.
Elic Ayomanor was available for 15 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 Elic Ayomanor scored 7.3 PPR points a game and Jared Wayne 4.0, 3.3 a game between them.
Elic Ayomanor had 87 more targets than Jared Wayne, 89 to 2.
Elic Ayomanor had 495 more receiving yards than Jared Wayne, 515 to 20.
This season Elic Ayomanor holds the bigger snap share, 65 percent against 0 percent.
Their target share this season is the same, 11 percent each.
Byes and availability
Elic Ayomanor is off in Week 9 and Jared Wayne in Week 6, so either can cover the other's bye.
Jared Wayne is listed as out on the injury report.
Both players in full
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