Should I start Isaiah Likely or Nate Boerkircher in Week 9?
Updated Nov 3, 8:11 AM ET. Week 10 answers post Tuesday.
Start Isaiah Likely: 85 percent of the snaps and 23 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Nate Boerkircher's 47 percent of the snaps and 6 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.
TE18 · NYG · bye 8
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- Overall rank
- 111
TE19 · JAX · bye unlisted
- Market-based projection
- 2.3 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 Isaiah Likely, and the board ranks him 111th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Nate Boerkircher, and the board ranks him 113th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
The market-based projection for Isaiah Likely is 2.3 PPR points a game off 1 market across 5 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a tight end's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
Nate Boerkircher's market-based projection is 2.3 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 11 market sources. That is the 90th highest figure of the 183 players with a market-based projection.
Isaiah Likely's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season so far
Through Week 7, Isaiah Likely has been on the field for 76 percent of NYG snaps, drawn 27 percent of the targets and had 17 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 16 of the offence's 61 third down targets, had 2 of its 13 chances inside the five and seen 8 of its 32 two minute targets.
His 63 targets have averaged 8.0 air yards.
In Week 5 against WAS he caught 11 of 13 targets for 94 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.
In Week 6 against NO he caught 6 of 11 targets for 99 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 7 against HOU he caught 2 of 4 targets for 12 yards and did not score.
Through Week 8, Nate Boerkircher has been on the field for 48 percent of JAX snaps, drawn 5 percent of the targets and had 3 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 0 of the offence's 48 third down targets, had 1 of its 16 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 23 two minute targets.
His 9 targets have averaged 6.6 air yards.
In Week 5 against PHI he caught 2 of 2 targets for 20 yards and did not score.
In Week 6 against HOU he caught 2 of 2 targets for 8 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 8 against IND he caught 1 of 1 target for 31 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Isaiah Likely played 14 games and scored 61.7 PPR points, 4.4 a game, finishing TE45.
He caught 27 of 36 targets for 307 yards and 1 touchdown, with 6 red zone targets.
That came to 2.6 targets a game, a 75 percent catch rate and 11.4 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 58 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Nate Boerkircher is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.
Head to head
This season Isaiah Likely holds the bigger snap share, 76 percent against 48 percent.
This season Isaiah Likely holds the bigger target share, 27 percent against 5 percent.
Byes and availability
Isaiah Likely is off in Week 8. No bye is listed for Nate Boerkircher.
What would change the answer
Isaiah Likely 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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