Should I start Geno Smith or Harold Fannin Jr. in Week 8?
Updated Nov 2, 11:16 PM ET. Week 9 answers post Tuesday.
Start Geno Smith: 100 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Harold Fannin Jr.'s 83 percent of the snaps and 26 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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Neither man carries a season projection right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.
QB21 · NYJ · bye 13
2026 vs pass yds line 6-2
- Market-based projection
- 15.6 pts a game Wk 8 price
- Overall rank
- 115
TE14 · CLE · bye 11
2026 vs anytime td line 2-6
- Market-based projection
- 8.5 pts a game Wk 8 price
- Overall rank
- 116
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The gap
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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 Geno Smith, and the board ranks him 115th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Harold Fannin Jr., and the board ranks him 116th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
No season market is posted for Geno Smith, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
No season market is posted for Harold Fannin Jr., so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
Neither carries a posted market, so this page rests on the draft room and on what the two have already done.
This season through Week 8
Through Week 8, Geno Smith has been on the field for 100 percent of NYJ snaps, dropped back 272 times and thrown 7.9 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 46 of 272 dropbacks and scrambled 11 times.
In Week 6 against NE he completed 20 of 30 passes for 252 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 1 interception and ran 1 time for 0 yards.
In Week 7 against MIA he completed 23 of 30 passes for 287 yards, threw 3 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 1 time for 1 yards.
In Week 8 against LV he completed 20 of 32 passes for 290 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 1 time for 4 yards.
Through Week 8, Harold Fannin Jr. has been on the field for 83 percent of CLE snaps, drawn 28 percent of the targets and had 6 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 7 of the offence's 18 third down targets, had 1 of its 6 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 19 two minute targets.
His 21 targets have averaged 5.8 air yards.
In Week 7 against TEN he caught 6 of 9 targets for 91 yards and did not score.
In Week 8 against PIT he caught 10 of 12 targets for 154 yards and did not score.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Geno Smith played 15 games and scored 190.9 PPR points, 12.7 a game, finishing QB23.
He threw for 3025 yards on 448 attempts with 19 touchdowns and 17 interceptions, and ran for 109 yards and 0 touchdowns.
That came to 29.9 attempts a game at 6.8 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 97 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
In 2025 Harold Fannin Jr. played 16 games and scored 186.4 PPR points, 11.7 a game, finishing TE6.
He caught 72 of 107 targets for 731 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 10 red zone targets.
That came to 6.7 targets a game, a 67 percent catch rate and 10.2 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 76 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Harold Fannin Jr. was available for 1 game more.
Side by side
In 2025 Geno Smith scored 12.7 PPR points a game and Harold Fannin Jr. 11.7, 1.1 a game between them.
Geno Smith finished QB23 and Harold Fannin Jr. TE6, which are two different ladders.
Geno Smith is a quarterback and Harold Fannin Jr. a tight end, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.
Byes and availability
Geno Smith is off in Week 13 and Harold Fannin Jr. in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.
Both players in full
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