Should I start Geno Smith or Jahan Dotson in Week 9?

The market-based projections

Geno Smith's market-based projection is 14.8 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 6 market sources. That is the 46th highest figure of the 226 players with a market-based projection.

Jahan Dotson's market-based projection is 5.7 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 121st highest figure of the 226 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Geno Smith, and the board ranks him 130th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jahan Dotson, and the board ranks him 133rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

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, Jahan Dotson has been on the field for 68 percent of ATL snaps, drawn 14 percent of the targets and had 8 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 10 of the offence's 62 third down targets, had 1 of its 15 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 26 two minute targets.

His 30 targets have averaged 16.4 air yards.

In Week 6 against CHI he caught 3 of 5 targets for 87 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 7 against SF he caught 1 of 3 targets for 6 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against TB he caught 2 of 5 targets for 95 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 Jahan Dotson played 17 games and scored 50.2 PPR points, 3.0 a game, finishing WR109.

He caught 18 of 36 targets for 262 yards and 1 touchdown, with 3 red zone targets.

That came to 2.1 targets a game, a 50 percent catch rate and 14.6 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 55 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Jahan Dotson was available for 2 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Geno Smith scored 12.7 PPR points a game and Jahan Dotson 3.0, 9.8 a game between them.

Geno Smith finished QB23 and Jahan Dotson WR109, which are two different ladders.

Geno Smith is a quarterback and Jahan Dotson a wide receiver, 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 Jahan Dotson in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

9.1 points a game is the entire case. The market restates it every week, and a line that moves moves the order with it.

The draft market is the half that is missing: when live drafts hold these two again they can order them differently from the projection, and this page will follow the drafts rather than the market-based projection when they do.