Should I start Elijah Higgins or Josh Cuevas in Week 9?

The market-based projections

Elijah Higgins's market-based projection is 3.7 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 142nd highest figure of the 225 players with a market-based projection.

Josh Cuevas's market-based projection is 2.5 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 157th highest figure of the 225 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Elijah Higgins, and the board ranks him 160th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Josh Cuevas, and the board ranks him 186th overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season through Week 8

Through Week 8, Elijah Higgins has been on the field for 39 percent of ARI snaps, drawn 6 percent of the targets and had 2 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 88 third down targets, had 1 of its 29 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 57 two minute targets.

His 18 targets have averaged 2.7 air yards.

In Week 6 against LAR he caught 3 of 3 targets for 28 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against DEN he caught 3 of 3 targets for 17 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against DAL he caught 2 of 4 targets for 10 yards and did not score.

Through Week 8, Josh Cuevas has been on the field for 23 percent of BAL snaps, drawn 6 percent of the targets and had 2 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 66 third down targets, had 1 of its 26 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 47 two minute targets.

His 13 targets have averaged 5.5 air yards.

In Week 6 against CLE he caught 4 of 5 targets for 44 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

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.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Elijah Higgins played 17 games and scored 58.1 PPR points, 3.4 a game, finishing TE48.

He caught 30 of 37 targets for 301 yards and 0 touchdowns, with 4 red zone targets.

That came to 2.2 targets a game, a 81 percent catch rate and 10.0 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 41 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

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

Head to head

This season Elijah Higgins holds the bigger snap share, 39 percent against 23 percent.

Their target share this season is the same, 6 percent each.

What would change the answer

1.3 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.