Should I start George Pickens or Ja'Kobi Lane in Week 9?
Updated Nov 3, 6:06 AM ET. Week 10 answers post Tuesday.
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Start George Pickens: 79 percent of the snaps and 25 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Ja'Kobi Lane's 54 percent of the snaps and 15 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.
Should I drop Ja'Kobi Lane for George Pickens?
Yes, on the rest of the season. George Pickens projects 114 market-implied PPR points from Week 9 through Week 17 (14.2 a game over 8 games), Ja'Kobi Lane 34 (4.3 a game over 8 games).
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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.
WR24 · DAL · bye 14
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- Market-based projection
- 14.8 pts a game Wk 8 price
- Overall rank
- 65
WR26 · BAL · bye 13
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- Market-based projection
- 3.9 pts a game
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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 George Pickens, and the board ranks him 65th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Ja'Kobi Lane, and the board ranks him 68th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
The market-based projection for George Pickens is 4.2 PPR points a game off 1 market across 5 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.
Ja'Kobi Lane's market-based projection is 3.9 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 11 market sources. That is the 47th highest figure of the 175 players with a market-based projection.
George Pickens's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season through Week 8
Through Week 8, George Pickens has been on the field for 82 percent of DAL snaps, drawn 21 percent of the targets and had 7 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 23 of the offence's 69 third down targets, had 3 of its 31 chances inside the five and seen 11 of its 50 two minute targets.
His 62 targets have averaged 11.6 air yards.
In Week 6 against GB he caught 6 of 11 targets for 73 yards and did not score.
In Week 7 against PHI he caught 4 of 6 targets for 57 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 8 against ARI he caught 2 of 4 targets for 48 yards and did not score.
Through Week 8, Ja'Kobi Lane has been on the field for 54 percent of BAL snaps, drawn 12 percent of the targets and had 15 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 9 of the offence's 39 third down targets, had 1 of its 8 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 16 two minute targets.
His 14 targets have averaged 10.6 air yards.
In Week 6 against CLE he caught 4 of 5 targets for 40 yards and did not score.
In Week 7 against CIN he caught 3 of 5 targets for 25 yards and did not score.
In Week 8 against BUF he caught 1 of 1 target for 13 yards and did not score.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 George Pickens played 17 games and scored 291.9 PPR points, 17.2 a game, finishing WR5.
He caught 93 of 137 targets for 1429 yards and 9 touchdowns, with 21 red zone targets.
That came to 8.1 targets a game, a 68 percent catch rate and 15.4 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 83 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Ja'Kobi Lane is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.
Head to head
This season George Pickens holds the bigger snap share, 82 percent against 54 percent.
This season George Pickens holds the bigger target share, 21 percent against 12 percent.
Byes and availability
George Pickens is off in Week 14 and Ja'Kobi Lane in Week 13, so either can cover the other's bye.
What would change the answer
George Pickens has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.
Drop or keep
Should I drop Ja'Kobi Lane for George Pickens?
Yes, on the rest of the season. George Pickens projects 114 market-implied PPR points from Week 9 through Week 17 (14.2 a game over 8 games), Ja'Kobi Lane 34 (4.3 a game over 8 games).
Should I drop George Pickens for Ja'Kobi Lane?
No. Keep George Pickens: he projects 114 market-implied PPR points from Week 9 through Week 17 (14.2 a game over 8 games), Ja'Kobi Lane 34 (4.3 a game over 8 games).
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