Should I start Marvin Mims Jr. or George Pickens in Week 9?
Updated Nov 3, 10:21 AM ET. Week 10 answers post Tuesday.
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Start George Pickens: 69 percent of the snaps and 19 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Marvin Mims Jr.'s 28 percent of the snaps and 9 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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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.
WR20 · DEN · bye 10
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- Market-based projection
- 4.5 pts a game
WR21 · DAL · bye 14
2026 vs anytime td line 2-6
- Market-based projection
- 14.8 pts a game Wk 8 price
- Overall rank
- 59
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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 Marvin Mims Jr., and the board ranks him 54th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on George Pickens, and the board ranks him 59th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
Marvin Mims Jr.'s market-based projection is 4.5 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 6 market sources. That is the 57th highest figure of the 211 players with a market-based projection.
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.
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, Marvin Mims Jr. has been on the field for 28 percent of DEN snaps, drawn 9 percent of the targets and had 7 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 2 of the offence's 16 third down targets, had 0 of its 9 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 4 two minute targets.
His 5 targets have averaged 1.2 air yards.
In Week 7 against ARI he carried 1 time for 3 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 53 yards and did not score.
In Week 8 against KC he carried 2 times for 19 yards, caught 2 of 3 targets for 10 yards and did not score.
Through Week 8, George Pickens has been on the field for 78 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.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Marvin Mims Jr. played 15 games and scored 93.0 PPR points, 6.2 a game, finishing WR66.
He caught 37 of 51 targets for 322 yards and 1 touchdown, with 2 red zone targets.
That came to 3.4 targets a game, a 73 percent catch rate and 8.7 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 35 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
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.
George Pickens was available for 2 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 George Pickens scored 17.2 PPR points a game and Marvin Mims Jr. 6.2, 11.0 a game between them.
Marvin Mims Jr. finished WR66 that year and George Pickens WR5.
George Pickens had 86 more targets than Marvin Mims Jr., 137 to 51.
George Pickens had 1107 more receiving yards than Marvin Mims Jr., 1429 to 322.
This season George Pickens holds the bigger snap share, 78 percent against 28 percent.
This season George Pickens holds the bigger target share, 21 percent against 9 percent.
Byes and availability
Marvin Mims Jr. is off in Week 10 and George Pickens in Week 14, 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.
Both players in full
Week 9 on the board
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