Should I start George Pickens or Josh Cameron in Week 9?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on George Pickens, and the board ranks him 64th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Josh Cameron, and the board ranks him 67th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for George Pickens is 4.3 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.

Josh Cameron's market-based projection is 4.1 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 11 market sources. That is the 47th highest figure of the 183 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, Josh Cameron has been on the field for 35 percent of JAX snaps, drawn 7 percent of the targets and had 6 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 48 third down targets, had 1 of its 16 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 23 two minute targets.

His 13 targets have averaged 6.7 air yards.

In Week 5 against PHI he caught 3 of 6 targets for 43 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against HOU he was not given the ball.

In Week 8 against IND he caught 0 of 1 target for 0 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.

Josh Cameron 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 35 percent.

This season George Pickens holds the bigger target share, 21 percent against 7 percent.

Byes and availability

George Pickens is off in Week 14 and Josh Cameron in Week 7, 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.