Should I start Mike Evans or Elijah Higgins in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Mike Evans, and the board ranks him 143rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Elijah Higgins, and the board ranks him 144th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Mike Evans is 3.0 PPR points a game off 1 market across 3 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a wide receiver's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Elijah Higgins's market-based projection is 4.9 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 8 market sources. That is the 107th highest figure of the 202 players with a market-based projection.

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

This season through Week 6

Through Week 6, Mike Evans has been on the field for 55 percent of SF snaps, drawn 23 percent of the targets and had 9 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 19 of the offence's 43 third down targets, had 2 of its 19 chances inside the five and seen 9 of its 25 two minute targets.

His 39 targets have averaged 14.6 air yards.

In Week 4 against DEN he caught 5 of 8 targets for 76 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against SEA he caught 7 of 10 targets for 113 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 6 against WAS he caught 3 of 5 targets for 94 yards and did not score.

Through Week 6, Elijah Higgins has been on the field for 39 percent of ARI snaps, drawn 5 percent of the targets and had 1 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 63 third down targets, had 1 of its 19 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 40 two minute targets.

His 11 targets have averaged 3.5 air yards.

In Week 4 against NYG he caught 2 of 2 targets for 19 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 5 against DET he caught 3 of 3 targets for 57 yards and did not score.

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

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Mike Evans played 8 games and scored 84.8 PPR points, 10.6 a game, finishing WR76.

He caught 30 of 61 targets for 368 yards and 3 touchdowns, with 8 red zone targets.

That came to 7.6 targets a game, a 49 percent catch rate and 12.3 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 65 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

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.

Elijah Higgins was available for 9 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Mike Evans scored 10.6 PPR points a game and Elijah Higgins 3.4, 7.2 a game between them.

Mike Evans finished WR76 and Elijah Higgins TE48, which are two different ladders.

Mike Evans is a wide receiver and Elijah Higgins a tight end, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Mike Evans is off in Week 8. No bye is listed for Elijah Higgins.

Mike Evans is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

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