Should I start Jacoby Brissett or Marvin Mims Jr. in Week 9?
Updated Nov 3, 2:21 PM ET. Week 10 answers post Tuesday.
Start Jacoby Brissett: 85 percent of the snaps and 0 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.
QB6 · ARI · bye 14
2026 vs pass yds line 4-4
- Market-based projection
- 17.1 pts a game Wk 8 price
- Overall rank
- 65
WR28 · DEN · bye 10
2026 vs anytime td line 0-6
- Market-based projection
- 4.5 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 Jacoby Brissett, and the board ranks him 65th overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 44.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Marvin Mims Jr., and the board ranks him 66th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
No season market is posted for Jacoby Brissett, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
Marvin Mims Jr.'s market-based projection is 4.5 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 11 market sources. That is the 73rd highest figure of the 213 players with a market-based projection.
This season through Week 8
Through Week 8, Jacoby Brissett has been on the field for 94 percent of ARI snaps, dropped back 331 times and thrown 7.2 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 61 of 331 dropbacks and scrambled 9 times.
In Week 6 against LAR he completed 24 of 35 passes for 218 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 2 times for 2 yards.
In Week 7 against DEN he completed 27 of 48 passes for 272 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 7 times for 16 yards.
In Week 8 against DAL he completed 10 of 23 passes for 119 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 3 times for 7 yards.
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.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Jacoby Brissett played 14 games and scored 235.4 PPR points, 16.8 a game, finishing QB16.
He threw for 3366 yards on 485 attempts with 23 touchdowns and 8 interceptions, and ran for 168 yards and 1 touchdown.
That came to 34.6 attempts a game at 6.9 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 70 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
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.
Marvin Mims Jr. was available for 1 game more.
Side by side
In 2025 Jacoby Brissett scored 16.8 PPR points a game and Marvin Mims Jr. 6.2, 10.6 a game between them.
Jacoby Brissett finished QB16 and Marvin Mims Jr. WR66, which are two different ladders.
Jacoby Brissett is a quarterback and Marvin Mims Jr. a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.
Byes and availability
Jacoby Brissett is off in Week 14 and Marvin Mims Jr. in Week 10, so either can cover the other's bye.
What would change the answer
Jacoby Brissett has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.
Both players in full
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