Should I start Evan Engram or Garrett Wilson in Week 9?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Evan Engram, and the board ranks him 147th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Garrett Wilson, and the board ranks him 148th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Evan Engram's market-based projection is 4.6 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 114th highest figure of the 219 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Garrett Wilson is 2.7 PPR points a game off 1 market across 8 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.

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

This season through Week 8

Through Week 8, Evan Engram has been on the field for 54 percent of DEN snaps, drawn 11 percent of the targets and had 3 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 9 of the offence's 66 third down targets, had 0 of its 26 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 26 two minute targets.

His 25 targets have averaged 5.1 air yards.

In Week 6 against SEA he caught 2 of 2 targets for 13 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against ARI he caught 1 of 3 targets for 2 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against KC he caught 0 of 3 targets for 0 yards and did not score.

Through Week 8, Garrett Wilson has been on the field for 88 percent of NYJ snaps, drawn 28 percent of the targets and had 10 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 20 of the offence's 61 third down targets, had 2 of its 14 chances inside the five and seen 6 of its 34 two minute targets.

His 63 targets have averaged 10.4 air yards.

In Week 6 against NE he caught 4 of 6 targets for 44 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against MIA he caught 2 of 3 targets for 26 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against LV he caught 6 of 12 targets for 83 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Evan Engram played 16 games and scored 102.8 PPR points, 6.4 a game, finishing TE29.

He caught 50 of 76 targets for 461 yards and 1 touchdown, with 10 red zone targets.

That came to 4.8 targets a game, a 66 percent catch rate and 9.2 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 42 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Garrett Wilson played 7 games and scored 99.5 PPR points, 14.2 a game, finishing WR62.

He caught 36 of 59 targets for 395 yards and 4 touchdowns, with 2 red zone targets.

That came to 8.4 targets a game, a 61 percent catch rate and 11.0 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 89 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Evan Engram was available for 9 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Garrett Wilson scored 14.2 PPR points a game and Evan Engram 6.4, 7.8 a game between them.

Evan Engram finished TE29 and Garrett Wilson WR62, which are two different ladders.

Evan Engram is a tight end and Garrett Wilson a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Evan Engram is off in Week 10 and Garrett Wilson in Week 13, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

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