Should I start Jaylen Waddle or Emeka Egbuka in Week 9?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jaylen Waddle, and the board ranks him 26th overall on the rest of his evidence.

By format he goes standard: ADP 15; 2QB: ADP 36.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Emeka Egbuka, and the board ranks him 125th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Jaylen Waddle's market-based projection is 11.3 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 6 market sources. That is the 24th highest figure of the 211 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Emeka Egbuka is 2.0 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 30 percent of what a wide receiver's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

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

This season so far

Through Week 8, Jaylen Waddle has been on the field for 63 percent of DEN snaps, drawn 23 percent of the targets and had 8 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 16 of the offence's 66 third down targets, had 1 of its 26 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 26 two minute targets.

His 51 targets have averaged 9.8 air yards.

In Week 6 against SEA he caught 4 of 7 targets for 24 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against ARI he caught 4 of 7 targets for 48 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against KC he caught 3 of 6 targets for 39 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Through Week 6, Emeka Egbuka has been on the field for 86 percent of TB snaps, drawn 26 percent of the targets and had 14 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 19 of the offence's 53 third down targets, had 3 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 10 of its 41 two minute targets.

His 49 targets have averaged 9.7 air yards.

In Week 4 against GB he caught 2 of 4 targets for 13 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against DAL he carried 1 time for 14 yards, caught 6 of 9 targets for 38 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 6 against PIT he caught 7 of 16 targets for 48 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Jaylen Waddle played 16 games and scored 194.1 PPR points, 12.1 a game, finishing WR24.

He caught 64 of 100 targets for 910 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 11 red zone targets.

That came to 6.3 targets a game, a 64 percent catch rate and 14.2 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 78 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Emeka Egbuka played 17 games and scored 195.7 PPR points, 11.5 a game, finishing WR23.

He caught 63 of 127 targets for 938 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 11 red zone targets.

That came to 7-8 targets a game, a 50 percent catch rate and 14.9 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 78 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Emeka Egbuka was available for 1 game more.

Head to head

In 2025 Jaylen Waddle scored 12.1 PPR points a game and Emeka Egbuka 11.5, 0.6 a game between them.

Jaylen Waddle finished WR24 that year and Emeka Egbuka WR23.

Emeka Egbuka had 27 more targets than Jaylen Waddle, 127 to 100.

Emeka Egbuka had 28 more receiving yards than Jaylen Waddle, 938 to 910.

This season Emeka Egbuka holds the bigger snap share, 86 percent against 63 percent.

This season Emeka Egbuka holds the bigger target share, 26 percent against 23 percent.

Byes and availability

Both are off in Week 10, so a roster holding the pair has that one week to cover twice.

Emeka Egbuka is listed as out on the injury report.

What would change the answer

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