Should I start Zay Flowers or Jadarian Price in Week 9?

The market-based projections

Zay Flowers's market-based projection is 10.5 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 57th highest figure of the 219 players with a market-based projection.

Jadarian Price's market-based projection is 10.1 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 7 market sources. That is the 60th highest figure of the 219 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Zay Flowers, and the board ranks him 41st overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jadarian Price, and the board ranks him 42nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season through Week 8

Through Week 8, Zay Flowers has been on the field for 67 percent of BAL snaps, drawn 30 percent of the targets and had 11 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 15 of the offence's 59 third down targets, had 0 of its 25 chances inside the five and seen 10 of its 38 two minute targets.

His 58 targets have averaged 8.2 air yards.

In Week 6 against CLE he carried 1 time for 1 yards, caught 6 of 11 targets for 66 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against CIN he caught 8 of 11 targets for 137 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 8 against BUF he caught 0 of 5 targets for 0 yards and did not score.

Through Week 8, Jadarian Price has been on the field for 36 percent of SEA snaps, taken 39 percent of the carries, drawn 9 percent of the targets and had 8 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 32 third down targets, had 1 of its 15 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 19 two minute targets.

His 11 targets have averaged 4.1 air yards.

In Week 2 against ARI he carried 13 times for 52 yards, caught 1 of 2 targets for 8 yards and did not score.

In Week 3 against WAS he carried 5 times for 15 yards, caught 1 of 3 targets for 7 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against CHI he carried 10 times for 29 yards, caught 2 of 4 targets for 8 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Zay Flowers played 17 games and scored 243.3 PPR points, 14.3 a game, finishing WR7.

He caught 86 of 118 targets for 1211 yards and 5 touchdowns, with 10 red zone targets.

That came to 6.9 targets a game, a 73 percent catch rate and 14.1 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 86 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Jadarian Price is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.

Side by side

Zay Flowers is a wide receiver and Jadarian Price a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Zay Flowers is off in Week 13 and Jadarian Price in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

0.3 points a game is the entire case. The market restates it every week, and a line that moves moves the order with it.

The draft market is the half that is missing: when live drafts hold these two again they can order them differently from the projection, and this page will follow the drafts rather than the market-based projection when they do.