Should I start Marvin Mims Jr. or Elijah Mitchell in Week 9?
Updated Nov 4, 6:21 PM ET. Week 10 answers post Tuesday.
Start Elijah Mitchell: 30 percent of the snaps and 26 percent of the carries over their last 2 games, against Marvin Mims Jr.'s 28 percent of the snaps and 9 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.
WR51 · DEN · bye 10
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- Market-based projection
- 4.1 pts a game
RB53 · PHI · bye 10
- Overall rank
- 170
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Their Week 9 outlook
The gap
- Board size309 draftable players
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 Mims Jr., and the board ranks him 141st overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Elijah Mitchell, and the board ranks him 170th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
Marvin Mims Jr.'s market-based projection is 4.1 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 140th highest figure of the 225 players with a market-based projection.
The market-based projection for Elijah Mitchell is 1.5 PPR points a game off 1 market across 8 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
Elijah Mitchell's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season through Week 8
Through Week 8, Marvin Mims Jr. has been on the field for 28 percent of DEN snaps, drawn 9 percent of the targets and had 7 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 2 of the offence's 16 third down targets, had 0 of its 9 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 4 two minute targets.
His 5 targets have averaged 1.2 air yards.
In Week 7 against ARI he carried 1 time for 3 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 53 yards and did not score.
In Week 8 against KC he carried 2 times for 19 yards, caught 2 of 3 targets for 10 yards and did not score.
Through Week 8, Elijah Mitchell has been on the field for 30 percent of PHI snaps, taken 26 percent of the carries, drawn 15 percent of the targets and had 13 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 4 of the offence's 20 third down targets, had 0 of its 5 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 17 two minute targets.
His 10 targets have come 4.0 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.
In Week 7 against DAL he carried 3 times for 11 yards, caught 3 of 4 targets for 23 yards and did not score.
In Week 8 against WAS he carried 11 times for 34 yards, caught 4 of 6 targets for 3 yards and did not score.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Marvin Mims Jr. played 15 games and scored 93.0 PPR points, 6.2 a game, finishing WR66.
He caught 37 of 51 targets for 322 yards and 1 touchdown, with 2 red zone targets.
That came to 3.4 targets a game, a 73 percent catch rate and 8.7 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 35 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
In 2025 Elijah Mitchell played 1 game, finishing RB149.
He carried 0 times for 0 yards and 0 touchdowns, and caught 0 of 1 target for 0 more yards.
He was on the field for 10 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Marvin Mims Jr. was available for 14 games more.
Side by side
Marvin Mims Jr. finished WR66 and Elijah Mitchell RB149, which are two different ladders.
Marvin Mims Jr. is a wide receiver and Elijah Mitchell a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.
Byes and availability
Both are off in Week 10, so a roster holding the pair has that one week to cover twice.
What would change the answer
Elijah Mitchell has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.
Both players in full
Week 9 on the board
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- Is Elijah Mitchell playing Week 9?
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- Week 9 start or sit
- Week 9 waiver wire
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- Fantasy football rankings
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